![]() ![]() The American, who had won all three of their prior encounters, was down 3-0 in the third when she received treatment on her right calf and Sakkari remorselessly powered to the win. She fended off five break points - despite three double faults - to hold serve in the fifth game and broke Rogers to pocket the set. Sakkari, trailing 1-4 when rain halted play for about 90 minutes, managed to turn it around in the second set. In other women’s matches, last year’s runner-up Maria Sakkari salvaged Greek pride with a battling 2-6, 6-4, 6-0 victory over American Shelby Rogers. Sabalenka, still barred from playing under her native flag of Belarus because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, next faces Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko, who beat 29th-seeded Croatian Donna Vekic 2-6, 6-2. “Happy to win this match in two sets without struggling too much,” said Sabalenka, who has never made it past the round of 16 in the California desert. Today in her opening match at the Sabalenka hit 33 winners and 16 unforced errors for a differential of +17. 17 – Coming into Indian Wells, had a winner-unforced error differential per match of +3 on the WTA Tour in 2023.
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