Western & Southern Open: Mertens reaches second round
Elise Mertens won against Madison Keys 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Wednesday night. She’ll face Marie Bouzkova in the next round
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Belgian Elise Mertens reached the second round of the Western & Southern Open by winning against American Madison Keys, the No 15 seed, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Wednesday night.
Mertens, ranked No 29, will play Marie Bouzkova next.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other 64 results (Linder Tennis Family Center, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):
- Linda Noskova (Q) beat Liudmila Samsonova: 2-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Sorana Cirstea beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 6-0, 6-2
- Donna Vekic beat Jennifer Brady: 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Belinda Bencic (13): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Danielle Collins (WC) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-1
- Ann Li (Q) beat Magda Linette: 0-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Marketa Vondrousova (10) beat Katerina Siniakova: 7-5, 6-4
- Karolina Muchova beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (12): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-4
- Marie Bouzkova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-2, 6-2
- Petra Martic beat Emma Navarro (Q): 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
- Qinwen Zheng beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 6-1, 6-4
- Mayar Sherif beat Xiyu Wang (Q): 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (5)
- Victoria Azarenka beat Barbora Krejcikova (11): 6-3, 7-5
- Varvara Gracheva (LL) beat Caroline Wozniacki (WC): 6-4, 6-4
- Daria Kasatkina (14) 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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