Miami Open: Qinwen Zheng eases into third round

Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 9 seed, advanced to the third round of the Miami Open by beating American Lauren Davis 6-1, 7-5 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday.

Zheng, ranked No 9, will face the winner of the match between American qualifier Taylor Townsend and Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 19 seed, next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, Davis, ranked No 229, edged out Japanese qualifier Aoi Ito (6-4, 3-6, 6-4).

Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.963.700, most recent results first):

• Sorana Cirstea vs. Danielle Collins
• Caroline Garcia vs. Iga Swiatek
• Elise Mertens vs. Peyton Stearns
• Belinda Bencic vs. Elina Svitolina
• Karolina Muchova vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Victoria Mboko vs. Paula Badosa
• Clara Tauson vs. Julia Grabher
• Alexandra Eala vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Madison Keys vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Bernarda Pera vs. Jessica Pegula
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Diana Shnaider vs. Anna Blinkova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Mayar Sherif
• McCartney Kessler vs. Linda Noskova
• Emma Navarro vs. Emma Raducanu
• Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Naomi Osaka vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Maria Sakkari
• Donna Vekic vs. Rebeka Masarova
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Ons Jabeur vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Magda Linette
• Taylor Townsend vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Coco Gauff vs. Sofia Kenin
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Elena Rybakina
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Alycia Parks
• Rebecca Sramkova vs. Jasmine Paolini: thursday
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse vs. Magdalena Frech: thursday