Halep advances to third round at Indian Wells

World No. 1 Simona Halep thundered into the third round of the Indian Wells WTA competition, overwhelming Kristyna Pliskova 6-4, 6-4 on Friday. 

The 26-year-old Romanian will meet the champ of a match between American special case Caroline Dolehide and Dominika Cibulkova, of Slovakia. 

"I was prepared to play. I was prepared to work and prepared to battle," Halep said. "It was a pleasant day. 

"It wasn't a simple match. Yet, I am extremely upbeat I won my first match here and I get an opportunity to play once more." 

Halep and Caroline Wozniacki have been alternating at No. 1 this year. 

Denmark's Wozniacki took the world number one positioning in the wake of winning the Australian Open yet Halep recovered it from her only before the tip top Indian Wells hardcourt occasion. 

Wozniacki will play her first match of the competition on Saturday against qualifier Lara Arruabarrena. 

The 2015 Indian Wells champion Halep won 58 percent of her first serves and made only one twofold blame in the 75 minute match. 

Pliskova, who is positioned 77th on the planet, impacted eight pros yet had her serve broken six times as she battled relentlessly with her second serve. 

Halep won three out of the last four diversions in the second set, guaranteeing triumph when Pliskova cruised a forehand long on the primary match point. 

Halep, who lost to Wozniacki in a three set last at the Australian Open, is as yet looking for her first Grand Slam title. 

Somewhere else, ninth seeded Petra Kvitova won her fourteenth straight match to square with the longest winning dash of her profession by outliving Yulia Putintseva 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/3), 6-4. 

"It's sort of intense to clarify, in light of the fact that it was truly all over," Kvitova said. 

"My psychological side wasn't generally extreme, I need to state. It was a decent point and I was up rationally, and afterward it was a terrible point, and I was down. That was all match." 

In other ladies' matches on Friday, Japan No. 1 Naomi Osaka traveled past veteran Agnieszka Radwanska, of Poland, 6-3, 6-2 and previous US Open victor Svetlana Kuznetsova was packaged out of the competition by Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus in straight sets 6-4, 6-3. 

Different champs incorporated China's Wang Qiang and American Coco Vandeweghe. 

Taking the court in the night session was world number three Garbine Muguruza who is confronting qualifier Sachia Vickery.