The fourth seed, Elena Rybakina, overcame a second-set meltdown to beat Belarusian Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 0-6, 7-6 (2) on Thursday and safe a return journey to the Miami Open remaining.
Rybakina, the best seed remaining within the girls’s draw, gained almost 82% of her first-serve factors however transformed solely two of her 11 break-point possibilities en path to securing victory in two hours 33 minutes.
“It was such a tricky battle,” Rybakina, a Moscow-born Kazakh, mentioned throughout her on-court interview after reaching her fourth remaining of the yr. “I didn’t serve that nicely and in addition Vika, from the second…