Karolina Pliskova progresses at Indian Wells after beating Monica Puig
ByPA Sport
Updated 11/03/2017 at 09:56 GMT
Karolina Pliskova breathed a sigh of relief after storming back to beat Olympic champion Monica Puig in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open.
Karolina Pliskova
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Puig comfortably won the first set and looked like sending Pliskova packing before the third seed completed a hard-fought 1-6 6-4 6-4 victory.
Czech Republic's Pliskova will play Irina Camelia Begu in round three after the Romanian beat America's Louisa Chirico 6-1 7-5.
Dominika Cibulkova also survived a scare against world number 64 Jelena Ostapenko to secure her third-round place at Indian Wells in three sets.
Fifth seed Cibulkova was made to work by the Latvian but eventually triumphed 6-4 3-6 6-3 after a battle which lasted over two hours.
Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, seeded eighth, had an easier evening in beating Sweden's Johanna Larsson 7-6 (7/3) 6-4.
Seventh seed Garbine Muguruza also impressed by winning 6-2 6-3 against Kirsten Flipkens and Kristyna Pliskova, twin sister of Karolina, overcame Daria Kasatkina 6-0 6-3.
Johanna Konta came out on top in the all-British battle with Heather Watson by winning 6-4 6-4 and Ukraine's Elina Svitolina, seeded 10th, fought back to win 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7/3) against China's Qiang Wang.
Kiki Bertens, seeded 18th, was a 6-2 6-2 winner against Belinda Bencic, 15th seed Timea Bacsinszky beat Monica Niculescu 7-5 6-2 while Kayla Day won 6-4 5-7 7-5 against Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.
There was also second-round wins for Daria Gavrilova, Roberta Vinci, Caroline Garcia, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Barbora Strycova.
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