Western & Southern Open: Potapova sets up second round clash against Paolini
The Russian defeated Clara Burel 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 in the first round on Tuesday
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Russian Anastasia Potapova won against Frenchwoman Clara Burel 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on Tuesday.
Potapova, ranked No 44, will play Jasmine Paolini, the fifth seed and recent French Open and Wimbledon runner-up, at the Lindner Family Tennis Center next.
The Russian beat Paolini in their only previous encounter on the WTA Tour, a three-set win in the round of 16 in Indian Wells earlier this year.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3,211,715):
- Magda Linette beat Katie Boulter: 2-6, 6-0, 7-5
- Elina Svitolina beat Yafan Wang (Q): 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Robin Montgomery (Q): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 6-4, 6-2
- Ashlyn Krueger (Q) beat Donna Vekic (16): 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Lulu Sun (Q) beat Linda Noskova: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Marta Kostyuk (15) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
- Karolina Pliskova beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
- Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5)
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Magdalena Frech
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Emma Navarro vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Karolina Muchova vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Yue Yuan
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Taylor Townsend
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Peyton Stearns vs. Paula Badosa
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Diana Shnaider vs. Shuai Zhang
- Harriet Dart vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Bianca Andreescu
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