US Open: Samsonova dispatches Liu to move into second round
Liudmila Samsonova defeated Claire Liu 7-6 (3), 6-3 and will face German Tamara Korpatsch in the next round
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Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 14 seed, reached the second round of the US Open by winning against American Claire Liu 7-6 (3), 6-3 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
Samsonova, ranked No 15, will play German Tamara Korpatsch 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
- Greet Minnen vs. Venus Williams
- Ana Bogdan vs. Sofia Kenin
- Anna Blinkova vs. Jodie Burrage
- Sachia Vickery vs. Donna Vekic
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Robin Montgomery vs. Eva Lys
- Barbora Strycova vs. Kaia Kanepi
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Fiona Crawley
- Clara Tauson vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Clara Burel
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Alycia Parks
- Patricia Maria Tig vs. Rebecca Marino
- Elina Svitolina vs. Anna-Lena Friedsam
- Peyton Stearns vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Camila Giorgi vs. Jessica Pegula
- Arantxa Rus vs. Madison Keys
- Tatjana Maria vs. Petra Martic
- Yanina Wickmayer vs. Vera Zvonareva
- Na-Lae Han vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Martina Trevisan vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Elsa Jacquemot vs. Lesia Tsurenko
- Caroline Garcia vs. Yafan Wang
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Marie Bouzkova: tuesday
- Linda Noskova beat Madison Brengle: 6-2, 6-1
- Ons Jabeur vs. Camila Osorio: tuesday
- Tamara Korpatsch beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-3, 6-2
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Leylah Fernandez: tuesday
- 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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