Western & Southern Open: Azarenka advances to second round
Victoria Azarenka won against Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 on Monday night and will play the winner of the match between American Serena Williams and No 10 seed Emma Raducanu in the next round
Belarusian Victoria Azarenka moved into the second round of the Western & Southern Open by winning against Estonian Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Monday night.
Azarenka, ranked No 22, will face the winner of the match between American Serena Williams and No 10 seed Emma Raducanu next.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round results (Linder Tennis Family Center, hard, USD 2.527.250, most recent results first):
- Serena Williams vs. Emma Raducanu
- Madison Keys vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Simona Halep
- Coco Gauff vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Sofia Kenin vs. Shelby Rogers
- Martina Trevisan vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Venus Williams
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Camila Giorgi
- Naomi Osaka vs. Shuai Zhang
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Elise Mertens
- Belinda Bencic vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Sloane Stephens vs. Alize Cornet
- Caroline Garcia vs. Petra Martic: tuesday
- Taylor Townsend vs. Ajla Tomljanovic: tuesday
- Tereza Martincova (Q) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz (LL): 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Leylah Fernandez (13): 6-4, 7-5
- Petra Kvitova beat Jil Teichmann: 6-7 (2), 7-6 (6), 6-3
- Catherine McNally (WC) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2)
- Alison Riske-Amritraj beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 6-1, 7-6 (2)
- Amanda Anisimova beat Daria Kasatkina (9): 6-4, 6-4
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Barbora Krejcikova: 6-3, 6-3
- Elena Rybakina beat Mayar Sherif: 6-3, 6-2
