Miami Open: Azarenka makes third round

Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 14 seed, won against Italian Camila Giorgi 6-3, 6-1 to reach the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday night.

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Azarenka, ranked No 16, will play Pole Magda Linette, the No 20 seed, next.

Giorgi, ranked No 44, edged out Estonian Kaia Kanepi (7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4)) in the previous round of the Miami tournament.

Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Shelby Rogers vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Shuai Zhang vs. Erika Andreeva
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Belinda Bencic
• Caroline Garcia vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Madison Brengle vs. Donna Vekic
• Petra Kvitova vs. Linda Noskova
• Robin Montgomery vs. Madison Keys
• Sofia Kenin vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Anna Blinkova
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Ons Jabeur
• Maria Sakkari vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Karolina Muchova vs. Lin Zhu
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Taylor Townsend
• Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Martina Trevisan (25) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Magda Linette beat Evgeniya Rodina: 6-3, 6-4
• Claire Liu beat Julia Grabher (LL): 6-4, 6-3
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Rebecca Marino: 6-4, 6-3
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Tereza Martincova (Q): 7-6 (4), 0-6, 6-0
• Jelena Ostapenko (24) beat Mirjam Bjorklund (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Anastasia Potapova (27) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-1, 6-3
• Liudmila Samsonova (12) beat Viktorija Golubic (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Katherine Sebov (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Danielle Collins (30) beat Viktoriya Tomova (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Petra Martic (29) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng (23) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 2-6, 6-1, 6-1
• Elise Mertens beat Daria Kasatkina (8): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Paula Badosa (21) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2