Western & Southern Open: Cirstea moves into second round
Sorana Cirstea edged out Belinda Bencic 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-4 on Tuesday evening. She’ll face Czech Petra Kvitova in the next round
Romanian Sorana Cirstea reached the second round of the Western & Southern Open by edging out Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No 12 seed, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-4 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening.
Cirstea, ranked No 40, will play Czech Petra Kvitova 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
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Camila Giorgi: tuesday
- Karolina Pliskova vs. Venus Williams: tuesday
- Martina Trevisan vs. Anna Kalinskaya: tuesday
- Shuai Zhang beat Naomi Osaka: 6-4, 7-5
- Elise Mertens beat Anhelina Kalinina (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Sloane Stephens (WC) beat Alize Cornet: 6-1, 6-0
- Caroline Garcia (Q) beat Petra Martic (LL): 6-3, 6-3
- Ajla Tomljanovic (Q) beat Taylor Townsend (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 7-5
- Victoria Azarenka beat Kaia Kanepi: 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
- 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
