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Pegula took advantage of six of her 10
break-point opportunities while losing her serve just once. In
particular, Pegula picked on Blinkova's second serves, winning
17 of 24 points (70.8 percent).
Three other players posted wins that were nearly as one-sided as
Pegula's. Third-seeded Daria Kasatkina of Russia downed Madison
Brengle of the United States 6-2, 6-1. Ninth-seeded Madison Keys
crushed Hailey Baptiste 6-1, 6-2 in an all-U.S. matchup, and
Austria's Julia Grabher blitzed the United States' Sachia
Vickery 6-1, 6-2.
Also advancing to the third round were seventh-seeded Ekaterina
Alexandrova of Russia, eighth-seeded Magda Linette of Poland,
12th-seeded Paula Badosa of Spain, 15th-seeded Irina-Camelia
Begu of Romania, Russia's Diana Shnaider, and the United States'
Caroline Dolehide, Bernarda Pera and Shelby Rogers.
In the last match of the night, fourth-seeded Belinda Bencic of
Switzerland defeated Canada's Katherine Sebov 6-0, 6-3 in 61
minutes.
Copa Colsanitas
Fourth-seeded Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia squandered two match
points in the second set but recovered to beat Canada's Eugenie
Bouchard 6-0, 6-7 (7), 6-4 in the second round at Bogota,
Colombia.
Rakhimova was up 6-5 and 7-6 in the second-set tiebreaker before
Bouchard rallied to level the match. In the third set, neither
player faced a break point until the last point of the day,
which Rakhimova took to seal her victory.
Second-seeded Tatjana Maria of Germany defeated Brazil's
Carolina Alves 6-2, 6-4, and sixth-seeded Laura Pigossi of
Brazil beat Serbia's Natalija Stevanovic 7-5, 5-7, 6-4.
Francesca Jones of Great Britain ousted Canada's Carol Zhao 6-2,
6-1.
--Field Level Media
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