Britain’s Emma Raducanu suffered one other early exit as she was crushed by Katerina Siniakova in the second round of the Miami Open.
Raducanu served for the match in the third set however in the end misplaced 3-6 6-4 7-5 to the erratic Czech.
The US Open champion, 19, has received simply two of her seven matches this season.
Earlier, compatriot Heather Watson claimed her first win over a top-20 participant since 2020 with a 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-4) victory over Elina Svitolina.
Watson saved a match level on her method to victory over the Twentieth-ranked Ukrainian.
It is the primary time in six years that Watson has reached the third round in Miami.
“I really like this match. I’ve been coming right here for therefore lengthy, I really feel prefer it’s house,” Watson advised Amazon Prime.
Andy Murray begins his marketing campaign in a while Thursday in opposition to Argentina’s Federico Delbonis.
Raducanu, seeded eleventh, can be left to rue her missed probabilities – she transformed simply 5 of 17 break factors and appeared to be affected by nerves as she tried to serve out the match.
She began the stronger of the 2 and raced to a 4-1 lead, with a tearful Siniakova taking a medical time-out for what seemed to be a rib drawback.
After closing out the primary set, Raducanu raced to a break lead in the second earlier than the world quantity 53 pressured a decider.
Raducanu once more took a break lead early in the third set and had an opportunity to go 3-0 up earlier than Siniakova reeled off three video games in a row.
Despite this, Raducanu broke and served for the match at 5-4, however a double fault handed the initiative again to Siniakova.
The Czech, ranked primary in girls’s doubles, was then capable of reap the benefits of a visibly dissatisfied Raducanu to shut out victory.
Watson bounces again for large win
Watson has dropped out of the highest 100 and has opted to overlook Britain’s Billie Jean King Cup tie with the Czech Republic in April to give attention to her singles rating.
She performed nicely in opposition to an out-of-sorts Svitolina and saved her confidence after she let a 4-2 lead slip in the opening set.
She saved a match level as she served to take the deciding set to a tie-break earlier than reeling off three factors in a row to say victory.
“I’m actually pleased that I’m coming again into type this 12 months,” Watson added.
“I used to be simply pondering on the finish that my health obtained me by way of that match. I’m actually glad I held my nerve and was capable of recover from the road.”
Watson will face both twenty second seed Belinda Bencic or Marta Kostyuk subsequent.
Earlier, Naomi Osaka thrashed Angelique Kerber in a gathering of two former world quantity ones.
Japan’s Osaka wanted simply 60 minutes to beat the Fifteenth-seeded German 6-2 6-3.
The victory is Osaka’s first over a top-20 participant since final 12 months’s Miami Open, when she beat Elise Mertens in the fourth round.
She will face Karolina Muchova subsequent after the Czech beat US Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez 6-4 7-6 (7-3) in their second-round encounter.
Danielle Collins was victorious in her first match because the Australian Open ultimate, the place she was runner-up to Ashleigh Barty.
The American got here previous Hungary’s Anna Bondar 6-3 3-6 6-4 to arrange a gathering with both Vera Zvonareva or Tamara Zidansek.
Simona Halep withdrew from the match earlier than her opening match with a thigh harm.
The Romanian, who reached the semi-finals in Indian Wells final week, mentioned she could be sidelined for 3 weeks.
Spanish seventh seed Garbine Muguruza additionally withdrew on Thursday with a shoulder harm.
