Western & Southern Open: Samsonova advances to last 16
Liudmila Samsonova won against Magda Linette 7-6 (10), 6-1 on Thursday. She’ll face Russian lucky loser Elina Avanesyan in the next round
Liudmila Samsonova – Zuma / Panoramic
Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 10 seed, moved into the last 16 of the Western & Southern Open by winning against Pole Magda Linette 7-6 (10), 6-1 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Thursday.
Samsonova, ranked No 17, will face Russian lucky loser Elina Avanesyan next.
Ahead of her victory, the Russian beat Chinese Xinyu Wang (6-4, 6-4).
Linette, ranked No 43, edged out Katie Boulter (2-6, 6-0, 7-5) in the previous round of the Cincy Open.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other second-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):
- Jessica Pegula vs. Karolina Muchova
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Magdalena Frech
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Paula Badosa
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Coco Gauff
- Taylor Townsend vs. Daria Kasatkina: thursday
- Aryna Sabalenka (3) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 6-3, 6-4
- Diana Shnaider beat Ashlyn Krueger (Q): 7-5, 6-0
- Leylah Fernandez beat Elena Rybakina (4): 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan beat Jelena Ostapenko (8): 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Elina Svitolina beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (LL): 6-4, 6-1
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-0, 6-7 (8), 6-2
- Marta Kostyuk (15) beat Lulu Sun (Q): 6-3, 7-5
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