Venus has been competing as well as ever, but also doing much better in tight matches this year. Stosur lost just ten points in the final set to win, 6-1 3-6 6-0. The Aussie lost a set to Pauline Parmentier in her second round match, but overcame the disappointment to record a third set bagel. In the third round, Venus will play Sam Stosur. It was a stop-start performance with Radwanska breaking Williams’s serve on three occasion, but Venus comfortably prevailing in the end. In her first match in a month, Venus Williams defeated Urszula Radwanska in straight sets, 6-3 6-2. Her game matches up well against the Spaniard and her intensity could be the deciding factor. The form book heavily sides with CSN in this one, but I like Cornet’s chances. The head-to-head is 3-2 in favour of Cornet, who has won their last three matches. Equally, Suarez Navarro was not troubled in the first round as she overcame Stefanie Voegele, 6-3 6-1. Cornet won her first match of the week in Miami with a comprehensive straight sets victory against Elena Vesnina, 6-4 6-1. In the last month, she has lost matches that you would have expected her to gut out last year. The Frenchwoman has a 7-6 W-L record in 2015 and hasn’t made a quarter-final in any of her six tournaments. In complete polar opposites, Cornet has had a sluggish start to the year. Her performances in Indian Wells weren’t all that convincing as she battled to three set wins over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Heather Watson however her record in three setters this year, which stands at 9-3, speaks for itself. She’s also become a dab hand at defeating the big hitters with wins over Petra Kvitova (X2), Karolina Pliskova (X2) and Camila Giorgi (X2). She has been very consistent this year and swept up in draws where other seeds have fallen. Suarez Navarro has made a superb start to the year, reaching four quarter-finals (Indian Wells, Dubai, Sydney and Brisbane), one semi-final (Doha) and one final (Antwerp). Their last meeting was a lengthy three setter, which Cornet won at the same stage of Indian Wells, 6-7(4) 7-5 6-3. Alize Cornet and Carla Suarez Navarro will play each other for the first time in over a year. On the slow hard courts of Miami, something tells me that this match could be brutal. Alize Cornet v Carla Suarez Navarro (Miami, R3) I had two previews planned for today, but I was busy at work today and i’m now feeling asleep… 1. I’m all in for Madison, but she still hasn’t proved herself on a consistent basis. The 2015 Australian Open semi-finalist was in tears at one of the changeovers in the second set and despite a late fightback, lost 6-4 6-2. Stephens played another solid match as she took advantage of an out-of-sorts, Madison Keys. ![]() Azarenka needed multiple match points and Jankovic was 0/13 on break points throughout the whole match. Jelena put up some resistance at the end in a marathon final game. Azarenka comprehensively outplayed Jelena Jankovic to win, 6-1 6-1. In Friday’s first batch of WTA matches, Victoria Azarenka and Sloane Stephens both won through in straight sets.
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