{"id":21606,"date":"2026-03-20T07:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21606"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:25:14","slug":"gibson-cruises-into-miami-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2026\/03\/20\/gibson-cruises-into-miami-second-round","title":{"rendered":"Gibson cruises into Miami second round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Talia Gibson is through to the second round of the Miami Open, dropping just one game against Czechia\u2019s Sara Bejlek.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talia Gibson continues her North American purple patch, comprehensively defeating world No.41 Sara Bejlek 6-1 6-0 in her first-round match in Miami.<\/p>\n

The West Australian won the last 10 games of the match to set up a second-round encounter with 16th seed Naomi Osaka, in a Wimbledon 2025 rematch.<\/p>\n

After successfully qualifying for the WTA 1000 tournament, Friday morning\u2019s victory means that Gibson has won nine of 10 matches following her run to the Indian Wells quarterfinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gibson defeated Georgia\u2019s Ekaterine Gorgodze and world no.82 Kamilla Rakhimova to secure her place in the main draw.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Following her breakout campaign where she became the first Australian woman to reach the Indian Wells quarterfinals since Casey Dellacqua in 2014, the 21-year-old climbed to world No.68, confirming her top-100 debut.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She joins Ajla Tomljanovic and Alex de Minaur in the round of 64. Tomljanovic booked her place after defeating Switzerland\u2019s Simona Waltert 6-3 6-4 on Wednesday. Meanwhile, De Minaur has a first-round bye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, Kimberly Birrell, James Duckworth and Alexei Popyrin fell at the opening hurdle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Birrell rallied to take the second set against American Ann Li, but fell 6-3 in the decider. Duckworth lost two tiebreak sets to Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, while Popyrin fell to Australian Open 2018 finalist Marin Cilic.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Emerson Jones will play her first-round match later on Friday against Czech Linda Fruhvirtova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talia Gibson is through to the second round of the Miami Open, dropping just one game against Czechia\u2019s Sara Bejlek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":21607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}