Western & Southern Open: Kvitova beats Blinkova to reach second round
Petra Kvitova won against Anna Blinkova 7-6 (2), 6-0 and will play the winner of the match between qualifier Linda Noskova and Russian Liudmila Samsonova in the next round
No 9 seed Petra Kvitova defeated Russian Anna Blinkova 7-6 (2), 6-0 to advance to the first round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati.
Kvitova, ranked No 9, will play the winner of the match between qualifier Linda Noskova and Russian Liudmila Samsonova 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
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Caroline Wozniacki: tuesday
- Daria Kasatkina (14) beat Peyton Stearns (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Bernarda Pera vs. Martina Trevisan: 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
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