Mertens upends eighth seed Kasatkina to reach third round in Miami

Belgian Elise Mertens advanced to the third round of the Miami Open by winning against Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 8 seed, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday evening.

Mertens, ranked No 39, will play the winner of the match between Croat Petra Martic, the No 29 seed, and Chinese Xiyu Wang next.

In the previous round of the Miami tournament, the Belgian defeated American Alycia Parks (6-1, 6-4).

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

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