Caroline Garcia has moved into the fourth spherical at Indian Wells with a medical 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-1 win over Leylah Fernandez.
Even although the match required three units and almost two-and-a-half hours to find out a winner, the fifth-seeded Garcia was not often below stress from her Canadian opponent who managed simply two break possibilities and couldn’t convert both.
Frenchwoman Garcia solely had one break alternative herself within the first set however made it rely, nosing in entrance 2-1 after which holding serve to take the opener.
Break possibilities had been equally sparse within the second because it went to a tiebreak, with a battling Fernandez extending the competition with a superb working forehand winner.
But the thirtieth seed had no solutions for Garcia within the third as she stepped up her assault grabbing the early break to go up 3-1, sweeping 5 straight video games.
“Losing the second set and the tiebreaker, I tried to really stay to good intensity and fighting,” Garcia mentioned.
“So that’s what I did better in the third set. I put more pressure on her and am very happy with the win.”
Emma Raducanu additionally superior to the final 16 for the primary time as she battled her solution to a 6-1 2-6 6-4 win over thirteenth seed Beatriz Haddad Maia.
Raducanu needed to dig deep in a contest lasting greater than two hours earlier than claiming a win which ranks as her finest since her 2021 US Open triumph.
Raducanu’s serve was in full move as she cruised by means of the opening set inside 34 minutes, nevertheless it abandoned her within the second, the Briton double faulting 4 instances as Haddad Maia turned the tide and Raducanu misplaced her first set of the match.
The world No.77 broke the Brazilian for a 4-3 lead earlier than serving it out.
Raducanu will play both world No.1 Iga Swiatek or Bianca Andreescu within the subsequent spherical.
Elsewhere, 2022 Wimbledon champion and tenth seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan beat Spain’s Paula Badosa, the 2021 Indian Wells champion, 6-3 7-5.
Sorana Cirstea was additionally a straight-sets winner, the Romanian defeating American Bernarda Pera 6-3 6-1, whereas Czech Karolina Muchova was a 6-4 3-6 6-4 victor over Italy’s Martina Trevisan.
With PA.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
