Sorana Kirstya easily beat Sloane Stevens (Grand Slam champion), and on Sunday she will play in the third round of WTA Miami with Russian Daria Kasatkina.

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Sorana Kirstea, match with Daria Kasaktina in the third round of WTA Miami

Sorana needed just 52 minutes to defeat Stevens 6-2, 6-1.

Kirstea now faces a match with Daria Kasaktina, who is Miami’s tenth favorite and is ranked 11th in the WTA rankings.

The match between Sorana and Daria will be the first on court 7 and will start at 17:00 (Romanian time). The match will be broadcast live on Digisport channels.

During the time, Kirstya and Kasatkin met three times, the score was 2:1 in favor of the Russian.

2024, Abu Dhabi: 6-2, 6-0 for Kasaktina

2021, Roland Garros: 6-3, 6-2 for Kirstea

2018, Madrid: 6-3, 6-1 for Casactina

• For reaching the third round, Sorana will receive $59,100 and 65 points in the WTA singles ranking.

• Last year’s Miami semi-finalist Sorana Kirstea has 390 points to defend (she is 27th in the WTA Live rankings, down three places).

• Romania had three other players in the main draw in Miami, but they all lost in the first round: Simona Halep (against Paula Badosa), Ana Bohdan (against Kateryna Siniakova) and Jacqueline Christian (against Diane Parry).

The WTA 1000 category tournament will be held in Miami from March 19 to 31. Played on hard court, the main draw features 128 players and a total prize pool of $8,995,555. The champion of the overall title is Petra Kvitova (she is pregnant and will not participate in this year’s edition).