Montreal: Putintseva sets Pegula clash in round 2

Kazakh lucky loser Yulia Putintseva advanced to the second round of the Canadian Open by winning against American Bernarda Pera 6-3, 6-4 at Stade IGA in Montreal on Tuesday evening.

Putintseva, ranked No 61, will face No 4 seed Jessica Pegula next.

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Montreal WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2,788,468):

• Daria Kasatkina (10) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 6-2
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Kimberly Birrell (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Katerina Siniakova: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Danielle Collins (Q) beat Elina Svitolina: 6-2, 6-2
• Alycia Parks (Q) beat Lauren Davis: 7-5, 4-6, 6-2
• Katie Boulter (Q) beat Rebecca Marino (WC): 6-3, 6-1
• Sloane Stephens beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Jennifer Brady beat Jelena Ostapenko: 7-6 (7), 0-6, 7-6 (8)
• Madison Keys (13) beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-2, 7-5
• Belinda Bencic (12) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Victoria Azarenka (16) beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-0
• Marie Bouzkova beat Kayla Day (Q): 7-6 (1), 6-3
• Jasmine Paolini beat Donna Vekic: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Karolina Pliskova beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-2
• Camila Giorgi vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Mayar Sherif
• Petra Martic vs. Cristina Bucsa
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Anna Blinkova vs. Shuai Zhang
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Peyton Stearns
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Magdalena Frech
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Karolina Muchova