Western & Southern Open: Ostapenko battles past Pliskova to make second round

Latvian Jelena Ostapenko advanced to the first round of the Western & Southern Open by edging out Karolina Pliskova 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati.

Ostapenko, ranked No 20, will play No 4 seed Elena Rybakina next.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other 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
• Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Barbora Krejcikova: tuesday
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Caroline Wozniacki: tuesday
• 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
• 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