Rybakina stretches winning streak to nine with win over Kalinskaya in Miami

Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 10 seed, advanced to the third round of the Miami Open by beating Russian Anna Kalinskaya 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday night.

Riding high after winning the BNP Paribas title on Sunday, Rybakina stretches her winning streak to nine matches, and sets s third-round clash with 21st-seeded Paula Badosa.

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Rybakina had to rally from a break down to win the opening set, then lost the momentum again in the second set, as she dropped five consecutive games to the Russian.

She rebounded in the third set, but it was not without complications. Kalinskaya broke to get on serve at 3-4, but Rybakina broke back immediately and served out the match in the next game.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Kalinskaya, ranked No 64, won against Andorran wildcard Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (6-4, 6-2).

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
• Victoria Azarenka (14) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-3, 6-1
• Martina Trevisan (25) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Magda Linette (20) 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 beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2

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