Both tennis players picked up victories on Sunday in the second Masters 1000 of the season and joined the select group of those who continue to compete at Hard Rock Stadium. Jannick Sinner, Cori Gauff and Casper Ruud are other qualifiers.
On a tennis-heavy Sunday, the Spaniard and Australia emerged victorious in their duels at the North American Masters 1000. While Badosa (6th WTA) beat Putintseva 6-2 and 6-3 Kyrgios (102nd ATP) ensured his presence among the top 16 in beat the Italian Fabio Fognini .
The world number six proved himself at Hard Rock Stadium. After failing to defend her title in Indian Wells, she came to Miami determined to better her best result in Florida. Something he achieved with his victory in the round of the best 32.
She easily beat the Kazakh, Yulia Putintseva (47th), and managed to climb into the round of 16 of the second Masters 1000 of the year, where she will now have to face the big surprise of the draw: Linda Fruhvirtova (279°) . The 16-year-old Czech earned a spot in the round of 16, after beating 16th-placed Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 3-0 and retiring. In this way he became youngest player to get past Miami’s third round since Tatiana Golovin in 2004 .
In the women’s draw, Cori Gauff and Jessica Pegula also earned top 16 tickets.
Kyrgios and Sinner will face off
On the men’s side, emotions were not lacking either. The match of the day was undoubtedly the one between Jannick Sinner (11th) and Pablo Carreño Busta (19th). A physical and mental battle, which ended up taking the young Italian 5-7, 7-5 and 7-5 .
Sinner, who reached the Miami Open final last year, played at a high level and hemanaged to save four match points against in the third set (five throughout the match), triggering the madness of those present on the third most important ground of the tournament.
Nick Kyrgios now appears on the horizon of the Italian, still on fire during his visit to the United States and who has just comfortably beaten Fabio Fognini (34th). the australian He beat the former Montecarlo Masters 1000 champion 6-2, 6-4. in 2019, showing that when focused he is one of the best players in the world.
Like in Indian Wells last week, the Canberra player is wreaking havoc with his serve and drive, recalling arguably the best version of his career. With what he has achieved so far in Florida, he has already secured his return to the top 100.
Another of the results of Sunday’s session was the 6-3 and 6-2 from Casper Ruud (8th) to Bublik (33rd) and the resounding victory of Frances Tiafoe (31st) against the Argentinian Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (122nd) by the same partials.
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