Lucky loser Kartal takes out 16th seed Haddad Maia in Indian Wells

Lucky loser Sonay Kartal moved into the third round of the Indian Wells WTA 1000 by winning against Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 16 seed, 6-2, 6-1 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday.

Kartal, ranked No 83, will face Polina Kudermetova next. The Briton will rise to a new career-high ranking inside the world’s top 70 no matter what happens this week.

Ahead of her victory, Sonay Kartal beat American qualifier Varvara Lepchenko (7-6 (6), 6-2).

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):

• Emma Navarro vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. McCartney Kessler
• Alycia Parks vs. Diana Shnaider
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Catherine McNally vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Belinda Bencic
• Elise Mertens vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Sofia Kenin
• Coco Gauff vs. Moyuka Uchijima: saturday
• Donna Vekic (19) beat Elina Avanesyan: 6-3, 6-3
• Iva Jovic vs. Jasmine Paolini: saturday
• Madison Keys (5) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-3, 6-0
• Maria Sakkari (29) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-0, 6-3
• Polina Kudermetova beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (20): 7-5, 6-2
• Lucia Bronzetti beat Magdalena Frech (30): 6-3, 7-5
• Qinwen Zheng (8) beat Victoria Azarenka: 6-3, 6-4
• Danielle Collins (14) beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 5-7, 6-2, 6-4
• Mirra Andreeva (9) beat Varvara Gracheva: 7-5, 6-4
• Elina Svitolina (23) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-1, 6-7 (8), 6-3
• Jessica Pegula (4) beat Magda Linette: 6-4, 6-2
• Xinyu Wang beat Jelena Ostapenko (26): 6-4, 6-4
• Iga Swiatek (2) beat Caroline Garcia: 6-2, 6-0
• Caroline Dolehide (WC) beat Eva Lys (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Lulu Sun beat Linda Noskova (31): 6-1, 6-4
• Dayana Yastremska beat Ons Jabeur (32): 6-3, 6-1
• Clara Tauson (22) beat Camila Osorio: 7-6 (3), 7-5
• Katerina Siniakova beat Yulia Putintseva (21): 6-2, 6-2
• Karolina Muchova (15) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-4, 6-3
• Marta Kostyuk (18) beat Robin Montgomery (WC): 6-1, 6-3
• Katie Boulter (25) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-0
• Elena Rybakina (7) beat Suzan Lamens: 6-3, 6-3