Madrid Open: Rybakina extends winning streak to reach third round
Elena Rybakina defeated Lucia Bronzetti 6-4, 6-3 on Friday and will face the winner of the match between Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 25 seed, and Egyptian Mayar Sherif in the next round
Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 4 seed, won against Italian Lucia Bronzetti 6-4, 6-3 to reach the third round of the Madrid Open at the Caja Magica on Friday.
Rybakina, ranked No 4, will play the winner of the match between Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 25 seed, and Egyptian Mayar Sherif next. Having won Stuttgart last weekend, the Kazakh has now won five consecutive matches.
In the previous round of the Madrid tournament, Bronzetti, ranked No 46, beat French qualifier Varvara Gracheva (6-3, 6-3).
Madrid WTA 1000, other second-round results (Caja Magica, clay, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):
- Danielle Collins vs. Olga Danilovic
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Shelby Rogers
- Katie Boulter vs. Robin Montgomery
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Mayar Sherif
- Sara Bejlek vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Magda Linette vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Caroline Garcia vs. Xinyu Wang: friday
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Linda Noskova: friday
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Daria Saville: friday
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-1, 6-4
- Leylah Fernandez (32) beat Anastasia Potapova: 7-5, 6-3
- Sloane Stephens beat Elise Mertens (28): 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Ons Jabeur (8) beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-0, 6-0
- Maria Lourdes Carle (Q) beat Veronika Kudermetova (17): 6-4, 6-4
- Sorana Cirstea (27) beat Alexandra Eala (WC): 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-4
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (11) beat Sara Errani (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Naomi Osaka: 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
- Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Emma Navarro (19) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-2, 6-1
- Dayana Yastremska (31) beat Emiliana Arango (Q): 0-6, 7-5, 6-4
- Maria Sakkari (5) beat Donna Vekic: 6-3, 6-2
- Victoria Azarenka (23) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-3, 6-1
- Madison Keys (18) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6)
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Elina Svitolina (16): 6-3, 7-5