Indian Wells: Keys saves two match points to win on comeback
Madison Keys edged out Hailey Baptiste 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4) on Saturday night and will play Kazakh Yulia Putintseva in the next round
No 18 seed Madison Keys saved two match points as she won on her comeback to the Tour with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4) win over qualifier Hailey Baptiste to reach the third round of the Indian Wells 1000 in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Keys, ranked No 20, will play Kazakh Yulia Putintseva next. It was her first match in five months after injury.
In the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament, Baptiste, ranked No 105, defeated qualifier Robin Montgomery (6-2, 4-6, 6-1).
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
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Naomi Osaka
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Sloane Stephens
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Jessica Pegula vs. Anna Blinkova
- Diana Shnaider vs. Maria Sakkari
- Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Xinyu Wang vs. Elise Mertens
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Emma Raducanu
- Diane Parry vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Clara Burel vs. Coco Gauff
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Oceane Dodin vs. Daria Kasatkina
- 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
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