Olympic silver medallist Vekic through to US Open third round
Donna Vekic beat Greet Minnen 7-5, 6-1 on Wednesday. She’ll face American Peyton Stearns in the next round
Donna Vekic, US Open 2024
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Croat Donna Vekic, the No 24 seed, reached the third round of the US Open by defeating Belgian Greet Minnen 7-5, 6-1 on Wednesday.
Vekic, ranked No 24, will face American Peyton Stearns next.
The Croat won against Australian qualifier Kimberly Birrell (6-4, 6-4) in the previous round.
In the previous round, Minnen, ranked No 70, beat Pole Magdalena Frech (7-5, 7-5).
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 75.000.000, most recent results first):
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Renata Zarazua
- Naomi Osaka vs. Karolina Muchova
- Elena Rybakina vs. Jessika Ponchet
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Sofia Kenin vs. Jessica Pegula
- Iga Swiatek vs. Ena Shibahara
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Varvara Lepchenko vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Katie Boulter vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Sara Errani
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Xinyu Wang
- Anna Bondar vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Clara Tauson vs. Diana Shnaider
- Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina: wednesday
- Elina Svitolina vs. Anhelina Kalinina: wednesday
- Tatjana Maria vs. Coco Gauff: wednesday
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Clara Burel
- Emma Navarro (13) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-1, 6-1
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-1
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (29) beat Iva Jovic (WC): 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
- Marta Kostyuk (19) beat Harriet Dart: 7-6 (10), 6-1
- Yafan Wang beat Diane Parry: 6-0, 6-4
- Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Erika Andreeva: 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-2
- Madison Keys (14) beat Maya Joint (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Elise Mertens (33) beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-3, 6-2
- Jule Niemeier beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 6-0
- Paula Badosa (26) beat Taylor Townsend: 6-3, 7-5
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Barbora Krejcikova (8): 6-4, 7-5
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