Ostrava Open: Sasnovich upsets Ostapenko to reach second round
Aliaksandra Sasnovich won against Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-2 on Tuesday. She’ll face Kazakh Elena Rybakina in the next round
Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich won against Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 8 seed, 6-2, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Ostrava Open at the Ostravar Aréna on Tuesday afternoon.
Sasnovich, ranked No 31, will face Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the Wimbledon champion, next.
Ostrava WTA 500, other first-round results (Ostravar Aréna, hard, USD 757.900, most recent results first):
- Shelby Rogers vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Karolina Muchova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Belinda Bencic vs. Eugenie Bouchard
- Alycia Parks vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Emma Raducanu vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Catherine McNally (Q) beat Anna Blinkova (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Tereza Martincova (WC) beat Jil Teichmann: 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5)
- Petra Kvitova (WC) beat Bernarda Pera (Q): 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
- Elena Rybakina beat Madison Keys: 5-7, 6-3, 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Victoria Azarenka: 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
- Ajla Tomljanovic (Q) beat Shuai Zhang: 6-3, 6-3
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