The seeds began to meet in the third round of the women’s singles – although only eight of the 16 seeds that began the tournament in the top half survived to this point.
One of them was No. 26 seed Leylah Fernandez, who ook on Ashlyn Krueger in a pretty big challenge. Krueger took out Elena Rybakina in the second round. And she took out Fernandez
Fernandez also played doubles, as will No. 2 seeds, the Cana-Kiwis Dabrowski and Routliffe. All of them are out, which leaves no one on the women’s side, Canadian-content wise.
(Miami is on ET).
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Location: Miami, Fla.
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Surface: Hard Court
Dates: March 18 – 30, 2025
Prize Money: $8,963,700
Draws: S96 – D32
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Final results
Singles, third round
Injury retirements
[1] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def [Q] Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) 61 retd
[6] Jasmine Paolini (ITA) def. [31] Ons Jabeur (TUN) 43 retd
Seeds advancing
[3] Coco Gauff (USA) def. [28] Maria Sakkari (GRE) 62 64
[9] Zheng Qinwen (CHN) def. [Q] Taylor Townsend (USA) 61 76 (3)
[14] Danielle Collins (USA) def [Q] Rebeka Masarova (SUI) 64 36 63
Other results
Magda Linette (POL) def [Q] Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 75 64
Naomi Osaka (USA) def [WC] Hailey Baptiste (USA) 76 (6) 36 64
Wang Xinyu / Zheng Saisai (CHN) def [2] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Erin Routliffe (NZL) 64 76 (6)
[8] Sofia Kenin (USA) / Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) def. Leylah Fernandez (CAN) / Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) 62 76 (6)
Ashlyn Krueger / Jessica Pegula (USA) def [6] Anna Danilina (KAZ) / Irina Khromacheva (RUS) 26 63 [10-7]
[3] Jasmine Paolini / Sara Errani (ITA) def Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) / Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) 61 57 [12-10]
[7] Elise Mertens (BEL) / Zhang Shuai (CHN) def. Monica Niculescu (ROU) / Katerzyna Piter (POL) 46 63 [10-7]
Jiang Xinyu (CHN) / Fang-Hsien Wu (TPE) def Asia Muhammad (USA) / Demi Schuurs (NED) 63 75
Anna Kalinskaya (RUS) / Caty McNally (USA) def Marie Bouzkova (CZE) / Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 62 62
Cristina Bucsa (ESP) / Miyu Kato (JPN) def [WC] Marta Kostyuk (UKR) / Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) [ALT] Quinn Gleason (USA) / Ingrid Martins (BRA) 63 64