Miami Open: Gauff races into third round

American Coco Gauff, the No 3 seed, made light work of windy weather and Argentinian qualifier Nadia Podoroska as she raced to a 6-1, 6-2 victory in their second-round encounter at the Miami Open on Friday.

Gauff, ranked No 3, will face the winner of the match between Dutchwoman Arantxa Rus and French lucky loser Oceane Dodin next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Podoroska, ranked No 78, won against American Ashlyn Krueger (6-4, 6-2).

Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):

• Elina Avanesyan vs. Ons Jabeur
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Danielle Collins
• Naomi Osaka vs. Elina Svitolina
• Maria Timofeeva vs. Linda Noskova
• Lin Zhu vs. Jessica Pegula
• Iga Swiatek vs. Camila Giorgi
• Sloane Stephens vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Claire Liu
• Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Emiliana Arango
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Shelby Rogers: friday
• Arantxa Rus vs. Oceane Dodin: friday
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Katie Volynets: friday
• Donna Vekic vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova: friday
• Paula Badosa vs. Aryna Sabalenka: friday
• Storm Hunter vs. Emma Navarro: friday
• 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