WTA Toronto: Keys retires injured, sending Stearns into last 16

Peyton Stearns moved into the last 16 of the WTA National Bank Open when No 7 seed Madison Keys retired at the Aviva Centre on Thursday.

Stearns, ranked No 53, led 3-6, 7-5, 3-0 when Keys, ranked No 14, pulled out on Thursday at the Aviva Centre. She was struggling with a similar leg injury to the one she suffered at this year’s Wimbledon.

Stearns will play Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 12 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Rogers Cup, Stearns defeated Russian Anna Blinkova (6-4, 6-3).

Toronto WTA 1000, other second-round matches (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 3,211,715)

• Katie Boulter beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (13): 1-1 ret.
• Ashlyn Krueger (Q) beat Leylah Fernandez (15): 6-4, 6-2
• Emma Navarro (8) beat Magda Linette: 6-2, 6-4
• Taylor Townsend (LL) beat Marina Stakusic (WC): 6-0, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova (6) beat Moyuka Uchijima (Q): 6-4, 6-2
• Coco Gauff (1) beat Yafan Wang (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Anna Kalinskaya (10) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-2, 6-2
• Marta Kostyuk (11) beat Elina Svitolina: 6-2, 2-6, 6-2
• Diana Shnaider (14) beat Magdalena Frech: 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Karolina Pliskova: 7-5, 6-4
• Naomi Osaka vs. Elise Mertens
• Yue Yuan vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Greet Minnen
• Paula Badosa vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Amanda Anisimova