Rogers sets round 2 clash with Sabalenka at Miami

Shelby Rogers moved into the second round of the Miami Open by beating Sloane Stephens 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 at the Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday night.

Stephens, the last American to win the title in Miami, in 2018, had never faced Rogers before on tour.

Rogers has now won seven straight decisions against her fellow Americans.

The American has three top 5 wins to her name, and will try to make it four when she meets No 2-seeded Aryna Sabalenka in the second round.

To achieve the feat, she’ll have to overcome an 0-3 lifetime record with the 2023 Australian Open champ.

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

• Anna Blinkova beat Jule Niemeier: 6-4, 6-1
• Leylah Fernandez beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 6-4, 6-3
• Taylor Townsend beat Anna Bondar: 6-4, 6-0
• Xinyu Wang beat Anna-Lena Friedsam (Q): 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Sofia Kenin beat Storm Hunter: 6-0, 7-6 (5)
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Tatjana Maria: 6-4, 6-1
• Robin Montgomery (WC) beat Ana Bogdan: 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea beat Fernanda Contreras Gomez (WC): 7-6 (6), 6-2
• Madison Brengle beat Amanda Anisimova: 7-6 (5), 5-2 ret.
• Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Maryna Zanevska: 6-1, 7-5
• Bianca Andreescu beat Emma Raducanu: 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Dalma Galfi: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Karolina Muchova (Q) beat Jil Teichmann: 6-0, 6-2
• Erika Andreeva (WC) beat Ashlyn Krueger (WC): 7-5, 6-2
• Linda Noskova beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 6-4
• Viktorija Golubic (Q) beat Hailey Baptiste (WC): 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Evgeniya Rodina beat Bernarda Pera: 6-3, 6-4
• Viktoriya Tomova (LL) beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Q): 7-5, 6-2
• Laura Siegemund (Q) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-3, 6-4
• Katherine Sebov (Q) beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
• Tereza Martincova (Q) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Camila Giorgi beat Kaia Kanepi: 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4)
• Claire Liu beat Katerina Siniakova: 3-6, 3-3 ret.
• Elise Mertens beat Alycia Parks: 6-1, 6-4
• Rebecca Marino beat Yulia Putintseva: 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Anna Kalinskaya beat Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (WC): 6-4, 6-2
• Mirjam Bjorklund (Q) beat Jasmine Paolini: 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Xiyu Wang beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (WC): 6-0, 7-5
• Marta Kostyuk beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 6-2
• Irina-Camelia Begu beat Alexandra Eala (WC): 6-2, 7-5
• Nao Hibino (Q) beat Danka Kovinic: 6-3, 6-3