Indian Wells: Gracheva knocks out seed Martic, books spot in third round
Varvara Gracheva beat Petra Martic 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday and will face the winner of the match between German Tatjana Maria and Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 8 seed, in the next round
Varvara Gracheva (Imago/Panoramic)
Russian qualifier Varvara Gracheva reached the third round of the Indian Wells by defeating Croat Petra Martic, the No 25 seed, 6-3, 6-2 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday.
Gracheva, ranked No 66, will face the winner of the match between German Tatjana Maria and Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 8 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the 22-year-old Russian won against Belgian qualifier Ysaline Bonaventure (6-2, 6-2).
Indian Wells WTA 1000, other second-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Madison Keys
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Paula Badosa
- Ons Jabeur vs. Magdalena Frech
- Peyton Stearns vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Elena Rybakina vs. Sofia Kenin
- Tatjana Maria vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Martina Trevisan vs. Madison Brengle
- Dalma Galfi vs. Caroline Garcia
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Emma Navarro
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Bernarda Pera
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Iga Swiatek vs. Claire Liu
- Karolina Muchova vs. Victoria Azarenka: saturday
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Marie Bouzkova: saturday
- Magda Linette vs. Emma Raducanu: saturday
- Linda Noskova beat Amanda Anisimova (31): 7-6 (6), 6-3
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Camila Giorgi: 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
- Karolina Pliskova (17) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 2-6, 6-0, 6-4
- Xinyu Wang beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (18): 6-2, 6-3
- Coco Gauff (6) beat Cristina Bucsa (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Maria Sakkari (7) beat Shelby Rogers: 2-6, 6-4, 6-0
- Rebecca Peterson beat Shuai Zhang (22): 3-0 ret.
- Anastasia Potapova (26) beat Xiyu Wang: 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Petra Kvitova (15) beat Elizabeth Mandlik (WC): 6-1, 7-5
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Evgeniya Rodina: 6-2, 6-0
- Barbora Krejcikova (16) beat Dayana Yastremska (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Veronika Kudermetova (11) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-3, 6-4
- Lesia Tsurenko (Q) beat Donna Vekic (29): 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Jil Teichmann beat Belinda Bencic (9): 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Jelena Ostapenko (24) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 7-5, 3-6, 6-2
- Anhelina Kalinina (27) beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
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