US Open: French qualifier Burel wins to set up Sabalenka clash in third round

French qualifier Clara Burel edged out Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to move into the third round of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City on Thursday night.

The 21-year-old Frenchwoman had come off a big upset win over Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, the No 25 seed (6-4, 6-4), in the previous round at Flushing Meadows.

Burel is a former world No 1 among the juniors and reached two Grand Slam junior singles finals, including the US Open in 2018.

Burel, ranked No 131, will next play Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the No 6 seed, who came back from the brink to beat Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi in three sets.

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US Open, New York City (Grand Slam), other second-round results

• Danielle Collins (19) beat Cristina Bucsa (Q): 6-2, 7-5
• Karolina Pliskova (22) beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-3, 6-2
• Aryna Sabalenka beat Kaia Kanepi: 2-6, 7-6 (8), 6-4
• Garbine Muguruza (9) beat Linda Fruhvirtova (Q): 6-0, 6-4
• Alize Cornet beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-1, 1-6, 6-3
• Yue Yuan (Q) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-3, 7-6 (6)
• Qinwen Zheng beat Anastasia Potapova: 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3)
• Petra Kvitova beat Anhelina Kalinina: walkover
• Petra Martic beat Paula Badosa (4): 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-2
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-3, 6-2
• Jule Niemeier beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-4, 6-3
• Jessica Pegula (8) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-4, 6-4
• Belinda Bencic (13) beat Sorana Cirstea: 3-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Victoria Azarenka (26) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-3
• Lauren Davis beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (28): 0-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5)
• Bianca Andreescu beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (15): 6-2, 6-4
• Liudmila Samsonova beat Leylah Fernandez (14): 6-3, 7-6 (3)
• Aleksandra Krunic beat Barbora Krejcikova (23): 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Serena Williams beat Anett Kontaveit (2): 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2
• Ajla Tomljanovic beat Evgeniya Rodina: 1-6, 6-2, 7-5
• Caroline Garcia (17) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 6-3, 6-1
• Coco Gauff (12) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse: 6-2, 7-6 (4)
• Dalma Galfi beat Harriet Dart: 6-4, 6-0
• Veronika Kudermetova (18) beat Maryna Zanevska: 6-2, 6-3
• Rebecca Marino beat Daria Snigur (Q): 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Madison Keys (20) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (6)
• Shuai Zhang beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 7-5, 6-1
• Alison Riske-Amritraj (29) beat Camila Osorio: 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5)
• Ons Jabeur (5) beat Elizabeth Mandlik (WC): 7-5, 6-2
• Xiyu Wang beat Maria Sakkari (3): 3-6, 7-5, 7-5
• Shelby Rogers (31) beat Viktoria Kuzmova (Q): 7-5, 6-1

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