Harriet Dart rallied from a set down at Indian Wells to defeat former world quantity three Elina Svitolina of Ukraine and progress to the third spherical for the primary time in her profession.
The Twelfth-seeded Ukrainian broke the Briton 4 instances within the opening set on the BNP Paribas Open earlier than Dart steadied herself within the second.
The British quantity three, ranked 122nd, managed to interrupt Svitolina 3 times consecutively to steer 5-3 then smashed a vital ace to assert the set.
Dart rushed out to a 3-0 lead within the decider however Svitolina scraped again some factors earlier than the match – which took two hours and 17 minutes – completed 2-6 6-3 6-3 within the qualifier’s favour.
Kaia Kanepi will face Dart subsequent after the Estonian wanted simply 81 minutes to upset twenty second seed Belinda Bencic 6-4 6-3.
Liam Broady, in the meantime, did not progress previous the primary spherical regardless of taking a set off Miomir Kecmanovic.
The Serbian has now gained each his encounters towards Broady following the 6-4 4-6 6-4 encounter in California on Friday.
Earlier, Emma Raducanu progressed with a three-set win over former world quantity 4 Caroline Garcia and Andy Murray confirmed all his famed preventing qualities as he shrugged off a nightmare first set to beat Taro Daniel and carry the Scot alongside Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in incomes 700 tour-level victories.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
