Qualifier Gracheva upsets Kasatkina to reach last 16 in Indian Wells; plays Rybakina next

Qualifier Varvara Gracheva won against No 8 seed Daria Kasatkina 6-4, 6-4 to reach the last 16 of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Monday night.

Gracheva, ranked No 66, will face Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the Wimbledon champion and No 10 seed, next.

Varvara Gracheva beat Belgian qualifier Ysaline Bonaventure (6-2, 6-2) and Croat Petra Martic, the No 25 seed (6-3, 6-2) ahead of her victory.

In the previous round, Kasatkina, ranked No 8, defeated German Tatjana Maria (6-2, 6-1).

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other third-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Bianca Andreescu (32): 6-3, 7-6 (1)
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Ons Jabeur (4): 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Emma Raducanu beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (13): 6-1, 2-6, 6-4
• Elena Rybakina beat Paula Badosa (21): 6-3, 7-5
• Karolina Muchova beat Martina Trevisan (23): 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
• Caroline Garcia (5) beat Leylah Fernandez (30): 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1
• Sorana Cirstea beat Bernarda Pera: 6-3, 6-1
• Aryna Sabalenka beat Lesia Tsurenko w/o
• Barbora Krejcikova (16) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-2
• Petra Kvitova (15) beat Jelena Ostapenko (24): 0-6, 6-0, 6-4
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Linda Noskova: 6-4, 6-3
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Anastasia Potapova (26): 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Karolina Pliskova (17) beat Veronika Kudermetova (11): 6-1, 7-5
• Maria Sakkari (7) beat Anhelina Kalinina (27): 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Rebecca Peterson beat Jil Teichmann: 3-6, 6-3, 6-1