Osaka’s Indian Wells run ends as Mertens advances to last 16
Elise Mertens won against Naomi Osaka 7-5, 6-4 on Monday night and will play American Coco Gauff, the No 3 seed, in the next round
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Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 24 seed, beat Japan’s Naomi Osaka 7-5, 6-4 to move into the last 16 of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Monday night.
Mertens, ranked No 28, will play American Coco Gauff, the No 3 seed, next.
The Belgian won against Chinese Xinyu Wang (6-1, 6-4) ahead of her victory.
Earlier in the tournament, Osaka, ranked No 287, won against Italian qualifier Sara Errani (6-3, 6-1) and Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 14 seed (7-5, 6-3).
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other third-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):
- Elina Svitolina vs. Emma Navarro
- Caroline Garcia vs. Maria Sakkari
- Anna Blinkova vs. Diane Parry: monday
- Daria Kasatkina (11) beat Sloane Stephens: 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Emma Raducanu (WC): 6-3, 7-5
- Coco Gauff beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Yue Yuan beat Caroline Dolehide: 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (22) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (12): 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Katie Volynets (WC): 6-2, 4-6, 6-0
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Angelique Kerber beat Veronika Kudermetova (17): 6-4, 7-5
- Anastasia Potapova (28) beat Nadia Podoroska (LL): 6-1, 6-1
- Jasmine Paolini (13) beat Anna Kalinskaya (21): 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Yulia Putintseva beat Madison Keys (18): 6-4, 6-1
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Linda Noskova (26): 6-4, 6-0
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