Western & Southern Open: Pliskova edges past Tomova to reach second round

Karolina Pliskova reached the second round of the Western & Southern Open by defeating Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3) at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati.

Pliskova, ranked No 45, will play the winner of the match between American Emma Navarro, the No 11 seed, and Russian Mirra Andreeva next.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Elina Avanesyan vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Peyton Stearns vs. Paula Badosa
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Magdalena Frech
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Yue Yuan
• Diana Shnaider vs. Shuai Zhang
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Taylor Townsend
• Karolina Muchova vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Emma Navarro vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Elina Svitolina vs. Yafan Wang
• Harriet Dart vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Katie Boulter vs. Magda Linette
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Clara Burel
• Robin Montgomery vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Donna Vekic vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Elise Mertens vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Lulu Sun vs. Linda Noskova
• Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Varvara Gracheva: tuesday