Western & Southern Open: Sherif prevails in three hour epic against Wang

Egyptian Mayar Sherif edged out Chinese qualifier Xiyu Wang 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (5) to advance to the second round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday afternoon.

With the match lasting three hours and eight minutes on Sherif’s domination of Wang’s second serve and her own consistency on the first serve made all the difference. Next up, it doesn’t get any easier for the world No 33, who plays No 7 seed Coco Gauff 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
• Danielle Collins vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Magda Linette vs. Ann Li
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Karolina Muchova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: tuesday
• 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
• 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