Western & Southern Open: Gracheva battles past Tomljanovic to make second round
Varvara Gracheva edged out Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5) on Tuesday evening and will face top seed Iga Swiatek in the next round
Varvara Gracheva, Cincinatti, 2023 Zuma / Panoramic
French qualifier Varvara Gracheva edged out Australian Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5) to reach the second round of the Western & Southern Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati.
Gracheva, ranked No 69, will play top seed Iga Swiatek 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
- Lulu Sun vs. Linda Noskova
- Elise Mertens vs. Marta Kostyuk: tuesday
- Karolina Pliskova beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
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