Indian Wells: No 11 seed Kasatkina reaches third round
Daria Kasatkina beat Oceane Dodin 6-3, 7-6 (5) on Saturday evening and will face the winner of the match between Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 19 seed, and American Sloane Stephens in the next round
Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 11 seed, defeated Frenchwoman Oceane Dodin 6-3, 7-6 (5) to advance to the third round of the Indian Wells at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday evening.
Kasatkina, ranked No 12, will face the winner of the match between Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 19 seed, and American Sloane Stephens next.
Dodin, ranked No 85, edged out Russian Elina Avanesyan (1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4)) in the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament.
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
- Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Xinyu Wang vs. Elise Mertens
- Diana Shnaider vs. Maria Sakkari: saturday
- Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Dayana Yastremska (30): 4-0 ret.
- Diane Parry vs. Leylah Fernandez: saturday
- Clara Burel vs. Coco Gauff: saturday
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Anhelina Kalinina (32): 6-3, 6-4
- 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