WTA Toronto: Canada’s Marino loses first round

Pole Magda Linette won against Canadian wildcard Rebecca Marino 6-3, 6-4 to reach the second round of the WTA National Bank Open at the Aviva Centre on Wednesday evening.

Linette, ranked No 43, will face No 8 seed Emma Navarro next.

Toronto WTA 1000, other first-round results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Nao Hibino vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Yue Yuan
• Bernarda Pera vs. Katie Boulter
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: wednesday
• Ons Jabeur vs. Naomi Osaka: wednesday
• Amanda Anisimova beat Caroline Dolehide: 6-1, 6-4
• Peyton Stearns beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 6-3
• Diana Shnaider (14) beat Harriet Dart (LL): 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2)
• Marina Stakusic (WC) beat Erika Andreeva (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Marie Bouzkova: 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (1)
• Paula Badosa beat Clara Tauson: 6-1, 6-4
• Elise Mertens beat Katie Volynets (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Greet Minnen (Q) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 6-2
• Anna Kalinskaya (10) beat Louisa Chirico (Q): 6-2, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko beat Bianca Andreescu (WC): 0-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Taylor Townsend (LL) beat Dayana Yastremska (16): 6-3, 3-1 ret.
• Karolina Pliskova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-4, 7-6 (10)
• Victoria Azarenka (12) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-2, 6-2
• Yafan Wang (Q) beat Sofia Kenin: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
• Elina Svitolina beat Shelby Rogers: 6-0, 6-2
• Moyuka Uchijima (Q) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Magdalena Frech beat Anastasia Potapova: 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
• Marta Kostyuk (11) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-0, 6-2