Miami Open: Liu books spot in third round

American Claire Liu moved into the third round of the Miami Open by winning against Austrian lucky loser Julia Grabher 6-4, 6-3 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday evening.

Liu, ranked No 59, will face the winner of the match between Japanese qualifier Nao Hibino and Italian Martina Trevisan, the No 25 seed, next.

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Ahead of her victory, the 22-year-old American benefited from the abandonment of Czech Katerina Siniakova (3-6, 3-3).

Miami WTA 1000, other second-round results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):

• Shelby Rogers vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Shuai Zhang vs. Erika Andreeva
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Belinda Bencic
• Caroline Garcia vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Madison Brengle vs. Donna Vekic
• Petra Kvitova vs. Linda Noskova
• Robin Montgomery vs. Madison Keys
• Sofia Kenin vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Anna Blinkova
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Ons Jabeur
• Maria Sakkari vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Karolina Pliskova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Karolina Muchova vs. Lin Zhu
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Taylor Townsend
• Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Kalinskaya
• Camila Giorgi vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Nao Hibino vs. Martina Trevisan
• Magda Linette vs. Evgeniya Rodina: thursday
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Rebecca Marino: 6-4, 6-3
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Tereza Martincova (Q): 7-6 (4), 0-6, 6-0
• Jelena Ostapenko (24) beat Mirjam Bjorklund (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Anastasia Potapova (27) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-1, 6-3
• Liudmila Samsonova (12) beat Viktorija Golubic (Q): 6-1, 6-1
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Katherine Sebov (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Danielle Collins (30) beat Viktoriya Tomova (LL): 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Petra Martic (29) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng (23) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 2-6, 6-1, 6-1
• Elise Mertens beat Daria Kasatkina (8): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Paula Badosa (21) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2