Western & Southern Open: Linette gets past Boulter to reach second round
The Pole will meet the winner of the match between Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 10 seed, and Chinese Xinyu Wang in the next round
Magda Linette | © Action Plus / Panoramic
Poland’s Magda Linette advanced to the second round of the Western & Southern Open by edging out Katie Boulter 2-6, 6-0, 7-5 in Cincinnati on Tuesday.
The pole led 4-1 in the final set before Boulter mounted a comeback to 4-4. The Brit also saved two matchpoints in the 10th game to level the set at 5-5 but was unable to save a third while trailing 6-5 in the final set.
Linette, ranked No 43, will face the winner of the match between Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 10 seed, and Chinese Xinyu Wang next at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Robin Montgomery (Q): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 6-4, 6-2
- Ashlyn Krueger (Q) beat Donna Vekic (16): 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Lulu Sun (Q) beat Linda Noskova: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Marta Kostyuk (15) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
- Karolina Pliskova beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
- Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5)
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Magdalena Frech
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Emma Navarro vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Karolina Muchova vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Yue Yuan
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Taylor Townsend
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Peyton Stearns vs. Paula Badosa
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Diana Shnaider vs. Shuai Zhang
- Harriet Dart vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Bianca Andreescu
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Clara Burel
- Elina Svitolina vs. Yafan Wang
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