Miami Open : Ever-improving Osaka reaches third round by defeating Svitolina
Naomi Osaka won against Elina Svitolina 6-2, 7-6 (5) on Saturday night.
Japanese Naomi Osaka won against Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 15 seed, 6-2, 7-6 (5) to advance to the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday night.
Osaka, ranked No 229, will play Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 23 seed, next. Osaka confirmed she was closer and closer to a top-player level. Ahead of her victory, the Japanese defeated Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto (6-3, 6-4), in what she called her best match since her return.
Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.770.480, most recent results first):
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Ons Jabeur
- Caroline Garcia beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-1, 5-2 ret.
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-1, 6-1
- Sorana Cirstea (19) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 6-1
- Linda Noskova (26) beat Maria Timofeeva (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Daria Kasatkina (10) 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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