Indian Wells: Garcia advances to third round with win over Tomova
Caroline Garcia defeated Viktoriya Tomova 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 on Saturday evening and will play the winner of the match between Russian Diana Shnaider and Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 9 seed, in the next round
Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 20 seed, reached the third round of the Indian Wells by winning against Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday evening.
Garcia, ranked No 26, will face the winner of the match between Russian Diana Shnaider and Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 9 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament, Tomova, ranked No 75, beat American Sofia Kenin (6-4, 7-6 (5)).
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Yue Yuan
- Peyton Stearns vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Emma Navarro
- Elina Svitolina vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Sloane Stephens
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Naomi Osaka
- Jessica Pegula vs. Anna Blinkova: saturday
- Elise Mertens (24) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-1, 6-4
- Diana Shnaider vs. Maria Sakkari: saturday
- Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Dayana Yastremska (30): 4-0 ret.
- Diane Parry beat Leylah Fernandez (29): 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Clara Burel: 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Anhelina Kalinina (32): 6-3, 6-4
- Daria Kasatkina (11) beat Oceane Dodin: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Madison Keys (18) beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4)
- Nadia Podoroska (LL) beat Kayla Day (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Linda Noskova (26) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-3, 7-5
- Anna Kalinskaya (21) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
- Katie Volynets (WC) beat Ons Jabeur (6): 6-4, 6-4
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (12) beat Rebecca Sramkova (Q): 7-5, 6-2
- Anastasia Potapova (28) beat Marie Bouzkova: 7-5, 6-1
- Jasmine Paolini (13) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-3
- Marta Kostyuk (31) beat Mai Hontama (Q): 6-4, 6-2
- Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Donna Vekic (25): 7-6 (5), 6-3
- Veronika Kudermetova (17) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-1, 7-5
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Danielle Collins: 6-3, 6-0
- Marketa Vondrousova (7) beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 6-0, 6-2
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (22) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Angelique Kerber beat Jelena Ostapenko (10): 5-7, 6-3, 6-3
- Yulia Putintseva beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (15): 7-5, 6-1