Badosa beats Stearns to reach Cincinnati second round

Spaniard Paula Badosa reached the second round of the Western & Southern Open by defeating American wild card Peyton Stearns 6-2, 7-5 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Wednesday afternoon.

Badosa, ranked No 37, awaits the winner of a match between Russian Anna Kalinskaya, the No 13 seed, and Katerina Siniakova.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round results:

• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Magdalena Frech
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Emma Navarro vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Karolina Muchova vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Taylor Townsend
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Yue Yuan: wednesday
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova: wednesday
• Diana Shnaider beat Shuai Zhang: 6-1, 6-4
• Elina Avanesyan (LL) beat Bianca Andreescu (WC): 6-4, 7-5
• Yulia Putintseva beat Harriet Dart (Q): 4-6, 6-0, 6-1
• Anastasia Potapova beat Clara Burel: 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
• Magda Linette beat Katie Boulter: 2-6, 6-0, 7-5
• Elina Svitolina beat Yafan Wang (Q): 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Robin Montgomery (Q): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
• Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 6-4, 6-2
• Ashlyn Krueger (Q) beat Donna Vekic (16): 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2
• Lulu Sun (Q) beat Linda Noskova: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Marta Kostyuk (15) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
• Karolina Pliskova beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
• Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5)

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