Indian Wells: Raducanu through to third round after Yastremska retires
Emma Raducanu benefited from the abandonment of Dayana Yastremska (4-0) on Saturday evening. She’ll play the winner of the match between American Peyton Stearns and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, in the next round
Wildcard Emma Raducanu moved into the third round of Indian Wells when Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 30 seed, retired at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Saturday.
Raducanu, ranked No 250, led 4-0 when Yastremska, ranked No 31, was forced to retire due to injury.
Emma Raducanu will face the winner of the match between American Peyton Stearns and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, next. Ahead of her victory, Raducanu won against Spanish qualifier Rebeka Masarova (6-2, 6-3).
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
- Diane Parry vs. Leylah Fernandez: saturday
- Clara Burel vs. Coco Gauff: saturday
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Lucia Bronzetti: saturday
- Oceane Dodin vs. Daria Kasatkina: saturday
- 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