Western & Southern Open: Kasatkina breezes past Peyton Stearns to move into second round

Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 14 seed, won against American wildcard Peyton Stearns 6-2, 6-1 to advance to the first round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati.

Kasatkina, ranked No 13, will face the winner of the match between French lucky loser Varvara Gracheva and Dane wildcard Caroline Wozniacki 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
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Caroline Wozniacki
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Bernarda Pera vs. Martina Trevisan: tuesday
• Petra Kvitova vs. Anna Blinkova: tuesday
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Karolina Pliskova: tuesday
• 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