Miami Open: Jelena Ostapenko powers through to third round
Jelena Ostapenko beat Mirjam Bjorklund 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday evening and will face the winner of the match between Czech qualifier Tereza Martincova and Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 13 seed, in the next round
Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 24 seed, reached the third round of the Miami Open by beating Swede qualifier Mirjam Bjorklund 6-3, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday evening.
Ostapenko, ranked No 22, will face the winner of the match between Czech qualifier Tereza Martincova and Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 13 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Bjorklund, ranked No 149, edged out Italian Jasmine Paolini (4-6, 6-4, 6-4).
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
- Camila Giorgi vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Nao Hibino vs. Martina Trevisan
- Magda Linette vs. Evgeniya Rodina
- Julia Grabher vs. Claire Liu: thursday
- Rebecca Marino vs. Coco Gauff: thursday
- Tereza Martincova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: thursday
- 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