Indian Wells: Putintseva sees off Keys to reach last 16
Yulia Putintseva beat Madison Keys 6-4, 6-1 on Sunday evening. She’ll play Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, in the next round
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