Top seed Carlos Alcaraz reached the Miami Open quarter-finals with a 6-3 6-3 win over Italy's Lorenzo Musetti.Spaniard Alcaraz, 20, will next play Bulgarian 11th seed Grigor Dimitrov, who beat Poland's 2021 champion Hubert Hurkacz 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-3).Italian Jannik Sinner and Russia's Daniil Medvedev also progressed.Australian Open champion Sinner won 6-4 6-3 against Australian Christopher O'Connell, while Medvedev defeated…

Victoria Azarenka continued her bid for a fourth Miami Open title with victory over Yulia Putintseva to set up a semi-final encounter with Elena Rybakina.The Belarusian 27th seed, who won her last title at Miami Gardens in 2016, needed almost three hours to claim a 7-6 (7-4) 1-6 6-3 win against Putintseva.There was a 45-minute stoppage in the opening set…

But the fightback was shortlived and the world number two, who was watched by Brazilian footballer Neymar, Miami Heat basketballer Jimmy Butler and 2009 US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, sealed victory on his first match point."He's a great athlete. He reaches almost every ball," Alcaraz said of Monfils."But at the same time, with my forehand, my best shot,…

Garcia, who beat four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka in the previous round, will play American Danielle Collins or Romania's Sorana Cirstea for a place in the semi-finals.Elsewhere, Kazakhstan's world number four Elena Rybakina progressed with a 6-3 7-5 win over American Madison Keys to set up a meeting with Greek eighth seed Maria Sakkari.Sakkari moved in to the quarter-finals…