Miami Open: Qualifier Ruse advances to third round, could play Sabalenka next

Romanian qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse beat Pole Magdalena Frech, the No 29 seed, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday.

Ruse, ranked No 102, will face the winner of the match between Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the top seed, and Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova next.

Ahead of her victory, the Romanian won against Russian Polina Kudermetova (6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2).

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
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Alycia Parks
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Elena Rybakina
• Jasmine Paolini (6) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-4, 6-4
• Qinwen Zheng (9) beat Lauren Davis: 6-1, 7-5