US Open: Kanepi defeats Strycova in straight sets for spot in second round
Kaia Kanepi defeated Barbora Strycova 6-4, 6-4 and will face the winner of the match between Qinwen Zheng, the No 23 seed, and Nadia Podoroska in the next round
Estonian Kaia Kanepi defeated Barbora Strycova 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Tuesday night.
Kanepi, ranked No 133, will play the winner of the match between China’s Qinwen Zheng, the No 23 seed, and Argentinian Nadia Podoroska 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
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Barbora Krejcikova: tuesday
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Nadia Podoroska: tuesday
- Anna Blinkova vs. Jodie Burrage: tuesday
- Greet Minnen vs. Venus Williams: tuesday
- Eva Lys (Q) beat Robin Montgomery (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Sachia Vickery vs. Donna Vekic: tuesday
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Fiona Crawley (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Karolina Pliskova (25) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 6-1, 6-4
- Clara Tauson beat Anastasia Potapova (27): 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3
- 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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