Wozniacki battles past Volynets to reach fourth round in Indian Wells

Dane wildcard Caroline Wozniacki advanced to the last 16 of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells by defeating American wildcard Katie Volynets 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Sunday night.

Wozniacki, ranked No 204, will face another former world No 1, German Angelique Kerber, next.

The 33-year-old Dane won against Chinese Lin Zhu (7-6 (6), 6-1) and Croat Donna Vekic, the No 25 seed (7-6 (5), 6-3) earlier in the tournament.

In the previous rounds of the Indian Wells tournament, Volynets, ranked No 131, won against Russian Mirra Andreeva (7-5, 7-5) and Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the No 6 seed (6-4, 6-4).

Indian Wells WTA 1000, other third-round results (Indian Wells Tennis Garden, hard, USD 9.258.080, most recent results first):

• Elina Svitolina vs. Emma Navarro
• Caroline Garcia vs. Maria Sakkari
• Naomi Osaka vs. Elise Mertens
• Anna Blinkova vs. Diane Parry
• Emma Raducanu vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Sloane Stephens vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Coco Gauff
• Yue Yuan vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Angelique Kerber beat Veronika Kudermetova (17): 6-4, 7-5
• Anastasia Potapova (28) beat Nadia Podoroska (LL): 6-1, 6-1
• Jasmine Paolini (13) beat Anna Kalinskaya (21): 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
• Yulia Putintseva beat Madison Keys (18): 6-4, 6-1
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Linda Noskova (26): 6-4, 6-0