The organizers of the tournament “WTA 1000” in Indian Wells announced the schedule for March 11, in the second round of which Sorana Kirstea will meet with Madison Keys.

Sorana Kirstea – Madison Keys, second round at Indian Wells

The match between Kirstea (83 WTA) and Keys (20 WTA, favorite 19) will be the fifth (last) match at Stadium 2 and will start no earlier than 20:00 local time (Sunday from 06:00 Romanian time)..

Kierstea and Keys (2017 US Open finalist) have only met once in a WTA tournament, in 2019 at Caja Magic (Madrid). Then in the first round 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 in favor of our player.

Know:

• The winner of the match between Sorana Kirstea and Madison Keys will play the winner of the match between Russia’s Lyudmila Samsonova (12 WTA, favorite 12) and American Bernarda Pera (43 WTA) in the next round.

• We will remind that Sorana is the only representative of Romanian tennis in the Indian Wells singles after Iryna Begu was defeated in the first round by Linda Noskova (54 WTA).

Around 01:30 (Romanian time), Gabriela Ruse and Marta Kostyuk will play against the team of Lyudmila Kichenok and Olena Ostapenko (favorites 3) in the first round of the doubles.

Indian Wells will be held from March 6-19 on hard and 96 players have started in the two main draws. The contest offers $8,800,000 each for men and women. Titled champions – Taylor Fritz and Iga Svyatek.