Western & Southern Open: Svitolina beats Bouzas Maneiro
Elina Svitolina won against Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-1 on Thursday evening and will play the winner of the match between Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the No 3 seed, and Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the next round
Ukrainian Elina Svitolina moved into the last 16 of the Western & Southern Open by winning against Spanish lucky loser Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-1 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Thursday evening.
Svitolina, ranked No 30, will face the winner of the match between Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the No 3 seed, and Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto next.
The Ukrainian beat Chinese qualifier Yafan Wang (5-7, 6-3, 6-2) ahead of her victory.
In the previous round of the Cincy Open, Bouzas Maneiro, ranked No 91, edged out Italian lucky loser Lucia Bronzetti (6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1)).
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
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Coco Gauff
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Paula Badosa
- Taylor Townsend vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Magda Linette
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Diana Shnaider
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Elena Rybakina: thursday
- Elina Avanesyan vs. Jelena Ostapenko: thursday
- 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