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 Varvara Gracheva, Cincinatti, 2023 Zuma / Panoramic
Cincinnati Open •Second round • completed
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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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