Western & Southern Open: Venus Williams makes second round

American wildcard Venus Williams moved into the first round of the Western & Southern Open by defeating Russian Veronika Kudermetova, the No 16 seed, 6-4, 7-5 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Monday evening.

Venus Williams will face the winner of the match between Chinese Qinwen Zheng and Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich 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
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Caroline Wozniacki
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Peyton Stearns
• Bernarda Pera vs. Martina Trevisan
• Petra Kvitova vs. Anna Blinkova
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Anhelina Kalinina beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 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