Miami Open: Cirstea cruises past Stephens to book spot in third round
Sorana Cirstea defeated Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-1 and will face Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, in the next round
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Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 19 seed, defeated American Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-1 to reach the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium.
Cirstea, ranked No 24, will play Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 10 seed, next.
Stephens, ranked No 41, won against German Angelique Kerber (6-2, 6-3) in the previous round of the Miami tournament.
Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Ons Jabeur
- Iga Swiatek vs. Camila Giorgi
- Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Naomi Osaka vs. Elina Svitolina
- Maria Timofeeva vs. Linda Noskova: saturday
- Daria Kasatkina beat Claire Liu (Q): 6-0, 1-0 ret.
- Danielle Collins beat Anastasia Potapova (30): 6-2, 6-2
- Jasmine Paolini (12) beat Katie Volynets (Q): 7-6 (8), 7-5
- Jessica Pegula (5) beat Lin Zhu: 6-4, 4-1 ret.
- Leylah Fernandez (31) beat Emiliana Arango (Q): 6-4, 6-2
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (21) beat Shelby Rogers: 6-2, 6-1
- Oceane Dodin (LL) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (14) beat Donna Vekic: 6-3, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Paula Badosa: 6-4, 6-3
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Nadia Podoroska (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Emma Navarro (20) beat Storm Hunter (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Xinyu Wang beat Veronika Kudermetova (16): 6-3, 6-2
- Elena Rybakina (4) beat Clara Tauson (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
- Victoria Azarenka (27) beat Peyton Stearns: 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
- Qinwen Zheng (7) beat Katerina Siniakova: 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 ret.
- Jelena Ostapenko (9) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Dayana Yastremska (28) beat Daria Saville: 7-5, 7-5
- Madison Keys (17) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-2, 6-4
- Yulia Putintseva beat Liudmila Samsonova (13): 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
- Maria Sakkari (8) beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-2
- Anna Kalinskaya (22) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-2, 6-2
- Anhelina Kalinina (32) beat Caroline Wozniacki (WC): 5-7, 7-5, 6-4
- Greet Minnen (LL) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 7-5, 6-1
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (11) beat Diane Parry: 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Katie Boulter (24) beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (WC): 7-6 (5), 1-0 ret.
- Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Elise Mertens (25): 6-2, 6-2
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