WTA Miami: Keys beats Avagneside, Raducanu wins 'Emma'

On March 21, local time, the 2025 WTA Miami station continued to compete in the second round of women's singles. New Australian Open women's singles champion and fifth seed Keys needed just 78 minutes to beat Avaniesyan 6-3, 6-3 and will face wildcard Filipino teenager Ella in the third round, who upset 25th seed Ostapenko 7-6(2)/7-5 in the second round.

In Women's Singles, eighth seed Navarro battled former US Open champion Raducanu in three sets before losing 6-7(6)/6-2/6-7(3). Raducanu picked up her third career top-10 singles win on hard court and her first on the hard court circuit, and in the third round she will face another homegrown player, Kessler, who also battled hard in three sets to defeat 30th seed Noskova 2-6, 7-5, 7-6(4). 13th seed Schneider lost 4-6, 6-7(0) to compatriot Blinkova.

The rest of the seeded players made the cut, with former tournament champion and No.2 seed Swiatek beating Garcia 6-2, 7-5 to make it two wins in a row at the Sunshine Doubles. Indian Wells champion and 11th seed Andreeva swept past Kudermetova 6-0, 6-2 to make it her 13th straight tournament win. Fourth seed Pegula beat compatriot Pera 6-4, 6-4 to make the cut. Former tournament champion and last year's semi-finalist Azarenka withdrew after suffering an injury against 15th seed Mukhova and losing the first set 0-6, dropping to No.47 in her instant ranking after deducting last year's points.

Other results:

[10] Badosa 7-5/1-6/7-6(3) Mboko [W]

[17] Anisimova 6-2, 6-2 Sherif

[20] Towson 6-4/7-5 Grabcher

[22] Svitolina 6-1, 6-2 Bencic

[23] Kostyuk 7-5/4-6/6-3 Birrell[Q]

[27] Mertens 6-4, 6-1 Stearns

[32] Kalinskaya 6-1, 6-3 Moe Natsu Uchijima

Zheng Qinwen will face her third-round singles match tomorrow morning when she takes on homegrown player Townsend in the final match on Centre Court, which is expected to kick off at 8:30 GMT.

(Text, editor: Dato, photo: Visual China)