Miami Open: Kalinina saves MP to defeat Wozniacki in marathon match
Anhelina Kalinina edged out Caroline Wozniacki 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 on Thursday. She’ll play the winner of the match between Spaniard Paula Badosa and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, in the next round
Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina, the No 32 seed, edged out Dane wildcard Caroline Wozniacki 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 to move into the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday.
At one stage, Kalinina was behind 7-5, 5-2 before she tore back into the match, saving a match point en route to victory over the former world No 1. This was the longest contest of the tournament so far, taking three hours, 17 minutes to complete.
Kalinina, ranked No 36, will face the winner of the match between Spaniard Paula Badosa and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, next.
In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Wozniacki, ranked No 129, beat Frenchwoman Clara Burel (6-1, 6-4).
Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):
- Clara Tauson vs. Elena Rybakina
- Paula Badosa vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Ons Jabeur
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Danielle Collins
- Sloane Stephens vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Claire Liu
- Naomi Osaka vs. Elina Svitolina
- Caroline Garcia vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Arantxa Rus vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Coco Gauff vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Lin Zhu vs. Jessica Pegula
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Emiliana Arango
- Storm Hunter vs. Emma Navarro
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Katie Volynets
- Donna Vekic vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Shelby Rogers
- Maria Timofeeva vs. Linda Noskova
- Iga Swiatek vs. Camila Giorgi
- Peyton Stearns vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Laura Siegemund vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Daria Saville vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Diana Shnaider vs. Madison Keys
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Yulia Putintseva: thursday
- Maria Sakkari (8) beat Yue Yuan: 6-2, 6-2
- Anna Kalinskaya (22) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-2, 6-2
- 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