Miami (USA) – Canadian Bianca Andreescu’s campaign to the WTA 1000 Round of 16 in Miami is one to envy, largely due to the level of rivals she left behind along the way. After knocking out Britain’s Emma Raducanu on her debut and Greece’s Maria Sakkari, she won another Grand Slam champion this Sunday by beating local Sofia Kenin in straight sets.

Australian Open champion in 2020, the American had hardly any chances in the match, but that didn’t make it easy for Andreescu either and went down with a double 6/4 , losing each of the sets with a single break difference. In the first, the Canadian made a solitary break, and in the second, she opened 4/1 with two front breaks and then saw her rival pare the loss.

After beating the 2021 US Open champion in the first round, the current world No. 10 in the second and now Kenin in the third, Andreescu will face 18-seeded Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, who is coming off a great victory over the Switzerland Belinda Bencic, ninth favorite. , against whom she scored a final score of 7/6 (10-8) and 6/3.

Like Bencic, another tennis player knocked out by a lower-ranked opponent on Sunday was Czech Karolina Pliskova, seeded 17, surprised by her compatriot Marketa Vondrousova, who dominated the all-Czech duel and conceded only three matches at the former world number 1, triumphing with partials of 6/1 and 6/2, in just 53 minutes.

In the round of 16, Vondrousova will face Romania’s Sorana Cirstea, who made the quarter-finals in Indian Wells and is trying to repeat the feat. She just knocked out another Czech, knocking out qualifier Karolina Muchova in straight sets, with the final scores 7/5, 6/1. This will be the third time they have faced each other, with each side winning in the previous two duels.