Miami Open: Minnen books spot in third round

Belgian lucky loser Greet Minnen won against Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday evening.

Minnen, ranked No 79, will play the winner of the match between Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 13 seed, and Kazakh Yulia Putintseva next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Tsurenko, ranked No 40, edged out Pole Magda Linette (2-6, 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
• Daria Saville vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Laura Siegemund vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Maria Sakkari vs. Yue Yuan
• Diana Shnaider vs. Madison Keys
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Xiyu Wang: thursday
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Caroline Wozniacki: thursday
• 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