Miami Open: Andreescu into third round after defeating Sakkari
Bianca Andreescu edged out Maria Sakkari 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 on Friday and will play the winner of the match between American Sofia Kenin and Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, the No 28 seed, in the next round
Canadian Bianca Andreescu reached the third round of the Miami Open by edging out Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 7 seed, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Friday.
Andreescu will be hoping it’s a good omen – she beat the same opponent en route to the Miami final in 2021.
And neither can have been too surprised by the lengthy match – over half of the Greek’s matches this season have gone to three sets.
Andreescu, ranked No 31, will play the winner of the match between American Sofia Kenin and Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, the No 28 seed, next.
In the previous round of the Miami tournament, the 22-year-old Canadian won against Emma Raducanu (6-3, 3-6, 6-2).
Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):
- Shelby Rogers vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Shuai Zhang vs. Erika Andreeva
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Belinda Bencic
- Petra Kvitova vs. Linda Noskova
- Caroline Garcia vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Madison Brengle vs. Donna Vekic
- Sofia Kenin vs. Anhelina Kalinina: friday
- Robin Montgomery vs. Madison Keys: friday
- Barbora Krejcikova (16) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-3, 6-2
- Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ons Jabeur (4): 6-2, 6-2
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Anna Blinkova: friday
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Veronika Kudermetova (11): 6-4, 6-2
- Karolina Pliskova (17) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-2, 6-4
- Karolina Muchova (Q) beat Lin Zhu (32): 6-4, 6-2
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (18) beat Taylor Townsend: 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
- Elena Rybakina (10) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- Victoria Azarenka (14) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-3, 6-1
- Martina Trevisan (25) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Magda Linette (20) beat Evgeniya Rodina: 6-3, 6-4
- Claire Liu beat Julia Grabher (LL): 6-4, 6-3
- Coco Gauff (6) beat Rebecca Marino: 6-4, 6-3
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Tereza Martincova (Q): 7-6 (4), 0-6, 6-0
- Jelena Ostapenko (24) beat Mirjam Bjorklund (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Anastasia Potapova (27) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-1, 6-3
- Liudmila Samsonova (12) beat Viktorija Golubic (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Katherine Sebov (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Danielle Collins (30) beat Viktoriya Tomova (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Petra Martic (29) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 6-3
- Qinwen Zheng (23) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 2-6, 6-1, 6-1
- Elise Mertens beat Daria Kasatkina (8): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Paula Badosa (21) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2