Western & Southern Open: Svitolina beats Wang in three sets
The Ukrainian will face the winner of the match between Italian lucky loser Lucia Bronzetti and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 14 seed, in the next round
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Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina won against Chinese qualifier Yafan Wang 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on Tuesday.
Svitolina, ranked No 30, will face the winner of the match between Italian lucky loser Lucia Bronzetti and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 14 seed and former champion, next at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.
This was the Ukrainian’s 24th win of the year on the tour.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3,211,715):
- Magda Linette beat Katie Boulter: 2-6, 6-0, 7-5
- 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
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