Western & Southern Open: Keys reaches second round
Madison Keys won against Yulia Putintseva 7-5, 6-3 on Wednesday night and will face Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 16 seed, in the next round
American Madison Keys defeated Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 7-5, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Wednesday night.
Keys, ranked No 24, will face Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 16 seed, next.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round results (Linder Tennis Family Center, hard, USD 2.527.250, most recent results first):
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Beatriz Haddad Maia: 6-4, 6-4
- Emma Raducanu (10) beat Serena Williams: 6-4, 6-0
- Simona Halep (15) beat Anastasia Potapova (LL): 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Marie Bouzkova (Q) beat Coco Gauff (11): 7-5, 1-0 ret.
- Shelby Rogers (WC) beat Sofia Kenin (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Marta Kostyuk beat Camila Giorgi: 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
- Karolina Pliskova (14) beat Venus Williams (WC): 7-5, 6-1
- Anna Kalinskaya (Q) beat Martina Trevisan: 7-6 (2), 7-5
- Shuai Zhang beat Naomi Osaka: 6-4, 7-5
- Elise Mertens beat Anhelina Kalinina (Q): 6-1, 6-1
- Sorana Cirstea beat Belinda Bencic (12): 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-4
- 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
