The 2023 AIG Women's Open did not give way in competitiveness during the second round, but all indications that the real fight will be to define the runner-up. Ally Ewing put distance on the leaderboard, and she did it with nothing but authority.The American player was serious about emulating her compatriot Brian Harman and showed up with the best second round of the AIG Women's Open. The fabulous -6 achieved on Friday means a score of 10-under 134 for her. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostEwing started the second round of the AIG Women's Open at full speed with five birdies on the front nine, four of them in a row. On the back nine, she had two more birdies. Her only bogey of the round came on the 18th hole.The AIG Women's Open leader is five strokes ahead of the three players in second place (local idol Charley Hull among them). It's a lead that could be comfortable with only two rounds ahead, and many fans are drawing parallels to what Harman did three weeks ago.During the second day of the AIG Women's Open, Atthaya Thitikul also excelled, with the second-best round (-5). She had a poor first round and needed a result like this to return as a contender.AIG Women's Open leaderboardBelow is the AIG Women's Open leaderboard after the second round. Only players who made the cut are included:1 Ally Ewing -10T2 Andrea Lee -5T2 Minami Katsu -5T2 Charley Hull -5T5 Lilia Vu -4T5 Hyo-Joo Kim -4T5 Alison Lee -4T5 Gabby Lopez -4T9 Angel YIN -3T9 Jodi Ewart Shadoff -3T9 Atthaya Thitikul -3T9 Allisen Corpuz -3T9 Aditi Ashok -3T9 Minjee Lee -3T9 Nasa Hataoka -3T9 Jin Young Ko -3T9 Perrine Delacour -3T18 Ryann O'Toole -2T18 Lynn Grant -2T18 Miyu Yamashita -2T18 In Gee Chun -2T18 Lindsey Weaver -2T18 Jiyai Shin -2T18 Ayaka Furue -2T18 Jeongeun Lee6 -2T18 Morgane Metraux -2T18 Jaravee Boonchant -2T28 Yu Liu -1T28 Grace Kim -1T28 Rose Zhang -1T28 Megan Khang -1T28 Yuna Nishimura -1T28 Mina Harigae -1T28 Narin An -1T28 Ruoning Yin -1T28 Nelly Korda -1T28 Kokona Sakurai -1T28 Emily Kristine Pedersen -1T28 Jenny Shin -1T40 Eun Hee Ji ET40 Pajaree Anannarukarn ET40 Olivia COWAN ET40 Nicole BROCH LARSEN ET40 A Lim Kim ET40 Leona Maguire ET40 Gemma DRYBURGH ET47 Stephanie Meadow 1T47 Amy Yang 1T47 Xi Yu Lin 1T47 Celine Boutier 1T47 Hye-Jin Choi 1T47Johanna GUSTAVSSON 1T47 Charlotte Heath 1T47 Anna Nordqvist 1T47 Hae Ran Ryu 1T47 Julia Lopez Ramirez 1T47 Yuri Yoshida 1T47 Mao Saigo 1T47 Klara SPILKOVA 1T47 Diksha Dagar 1T61 Kylie WALKER 2T61 Angela Stanford 2T61 Caroline HEDWALL 2T61 Maya Stark 2T61 Georgia HALL 2T61 Haruka Kawasaki 2T61 Alice Hewson 2T61 Lindy Duncan 2T61 Wei Ling Hsu 2T61 Cara Gainer 2T61 Akie Iwai 2T61 Danielle Kang 2T61 Moriya Jutanugarn 2