Western & Southern Open: Gracheva comes through tricky Wozniacki encounter to make second round
Varvara Gracheva defeated Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-4. She’ll face Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 14 seed, in the next round
INDIAN WELLS, CA – MARCH 11: Varvara Gracheva serves during the BNP Paribas Open on March 11, 2023 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, CA. (Icon SMI/Panoramic)
French lucky loser Varvara Gracheva moved into the first round of the Western & Southern Open by winning against Dane wildcard Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-4 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati.
Gracheva, ranked No 45, will face Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 14 seed, next.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other round of 64 results (Linder Tennis Family Center, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):
- Madison Keys vs. Elise Mertens
- Linda Noskova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Jennifer Brady vs. Donna Vekic
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Belinda Bencic
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Danielle Collins vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Magda Linette vs. Ann Li
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Karolina Muchova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Petra Martic vs. Emma Navarro
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich: tuesday
- Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif: tuesday
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Barbora Krejcikova: tuesday
- Daria Kasatkina beat Peyton Stearns (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Martina Trevisan (Q) beat Bernarda Pera: 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
- Petra Kvitova (9) beat Anna Blinkova: 7-6 (2), 6-0
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Karolina Pliskova: 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Anhelina Kalinina beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 7-5
- Venus Williams (WC) beat Veronika Kudermetova (16): 6-4, 7-5
- Anastasia Potapova beat Celine Naef (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 7-5
- Jasmine Paolini (Q) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-1
- Sloane Stephens beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 7-5, 6-2
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