US Open: Pliskova breezes past Ruse and into second round
Karolina Pliskova defeated Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-1, 6-4 and will face Frenchwoman Clara Burel in the next round
Karolina Pliskova in Miami in 2021 (Zuma/Panoramic)
No 25 seed Karolina Pliskova moved into the second round of the US Open by beating Romanian qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-1, 6-4 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Pliskova, ranked No 25, will play Frenchwoman Clara Burel next.
New York (Grand Slam), other first-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44.700.000, most recent results first):
- Maryna Zanevska vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Ana Bogdan vs. Sofia Kenin
- Greet Minnen vs. Venus Williams
- Anna Blinkova vs. Jodie Burrage
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Robin Montgomery vs. Eva Lys
- Barbora Strycova vs. Kaia Kanepi
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Sachia Vickery vs. Donna Vekic: tuesday
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Fiona Crawley: tuesday
- Clara Tauson vs. Anastasia Potapova: tuesday
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Elsa Jacquemot (Q): 7-5, 3-6, 6-1
- Daria Kasatkina (13) beat Alycia Parks: 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Patricia Maria Tig beat Rebecca Marino: 7-6 (6), 7-6 (1)
- Elina Svitolina (26) beat Anna-Lena Friedsam: 6-3, 6-1
- Peyton Stearns beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-3, 6-4
- Clara Burel beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-4, 6-3
- Yanina Wickmayer (LL) beat Vera Zvonareva (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-2, 6-2
- Marketa Vondrousova (9) beat Na-Lae Han (Q): 6-3, 6-0
- Yafan Wang (Q) beat Caroline Garcia (7): 6-4, 6-1
- Petra Martic beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-1
- Madison Keys (17) beat Arantxa Rus: 6-2, 6-4
- Martina Trevisan beat Yulia Putintseva: 0-6, 7-6, 7-6 (8)
- Marie Bouzkova (31) beat Ashlyn Krueger (WC): 7-5, 6-4
- Linda Noskova beat Madison Brengle: 6-2, 6-1
- Ons Jabeur (5) beat Camila Osorio: 7-5, 7-6 (4)
- Tamara Korpatsch beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-3, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova (14) beat Claire Liu: 7-6 (3), 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (22) beat Leylah Fernandez: 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-4
- Katie Boulter beat Diane Parry: 6-4, 6-0
- Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Tatiana Prozorova (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Magda Linette (24) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-3, 6-1
- Sorana Cirstea (30) beat Kayla Day (WC): 6-2, 6-3
- Mirra Andreeva beat Olivia Gadecki (Q): 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Coco Gauff (6) beat Laura Siegemund (Q): 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Petra Kvitova (11) beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-1, 7-6 (5)
- Jelena Ostapenko (20) beat Jasmine Paolini: 6-2, 4-6, 6-1
- Elina Avanesyan beat Alize Cornet: 6-2, 1-6, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-4, 6-2
- Elise Mertens (32) beat Mirjam Bjorklund (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3)
- Ajla Tomljanovic beat Panna Udvardy: 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Xiyu Wang beat Viktoria Hruncakova (LL): 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6)
- Jennifer Brady beat Kimberly Birrell (LL): 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Lin Zhu beat Mayar Sherif: 6-3, 7-5
- Kaja Juvan (Q) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto (29): 6-2, 7-5
- Xinyu Wang beat Katie Volynets (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Elena Rybakina (4) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-1
- Yuriko Miyazaki (Q) beat Margarita Betova: 6-3, 6-3
- Danielle Collins beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 6-2, 6-0
- Bernarda Pera beat Veronika Kudermetova (16): 7-5, 6-4
- Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Anhelina Kalinina (28): 6-4, 7-5
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (19) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 5-7, 6-4
- Lauren Davis beat Danka Kovinic: 6-2, 6-2
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Rebecca Peterson: 6-0, 6-1
- Rebeka Masarova beat Maria Sakkari (8): 6-4, 6-4
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat Kateryna Baindl: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Taylor Townsend beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 6-2
- Magdalena Frech beat Emma Navarro: 7-6 (10), 1-6, 6-2
- Karolina Muchova (10) beat Storm Hunter (WC): 6-4, 6-0
- Belinda Bencic (15) beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 6-4
- Victoria Azarenka (18) beat Fiona Ferro (WC): 6-1, 6-2
- Daria Saville beat Clervie Ngounoue (WC): 6-0, 6-2
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