Indian Wells: Putintseva sees off Keys to reach last 16

Kazakh Yulia Putintseva advanced to the last 16 of the Indian Wells by beating American Madison Keys, the No 18 seed, 6-4, 6-1 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Sunday evening.

Putintseva, ranked No 79, will face Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, next.

The Kazakh won against German Tamara Korpatsch (6-2, 6-3) and Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 15 seed (7-5, 6-1) in the previous rounds of the Indian Wells tournament.

In the previous round of the Indian Wells tournament, Keys, ranked No 20, edged out qualifier Hailey Baptiste (6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4)).

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other third-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):

• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Katie Volynets
• Emma Raducanu vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Elina Svitolina vs. Emma Navarro
• Caroline Garcia vs. Maria Sakkari
• Anna Blinkova vs. Diane Parry
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Coco Gauff
• Naomi Osaka vs. Elise Mertens
• Sloane Stephens vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Yue Yuan vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Angelique Kerber vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Jasmine Paolini: sunday
• Iga Swiatek beat Linda Noskova (26): 6-4, 6-0