Cleveland Open: Tauson advances to second round

Dane Clara Tauson beat Slovak Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Cleveland Open at Jacobs Pavilion on Monday.

Tauson, ranked No 67, will play Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 5 seed, next.

Cleveland WTA 250, other first-round results (Jacobs Pavilion, hard, USD 267.082, most recent results first):

• Ana Bogdan vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Greet Minnen vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Moyuka Uchijima vs. Peyton Stearns
• Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Yafan Wang
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Sayaka Ishii
• Katie Volynets vs. Sofia Kenin
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Viktorija Golubic
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Lauren Davis
• Cristina Bucsa beat Martina Trevisan: 6-2, 6-4
• McCartney Kessler (WC) beat Katrina Scott (WC): 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
• Clara Burel beat Elvina Kalieva (LL): 6-3, 6-2
• Anastasia Potapova beat Diane Parry: 6-3, 6-2
• Xinyu Wang (4) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-1, 6-1
• Arantxa Rus beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-3, 7-6 (4)