Western & Southern Open: Ostapenko battles past Pliskova to make second round
Jelena Ostapenko edged out Karolina Pliskova 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 and will play No 4 seed Elena Rybakina in the next round
Jelena Ostapenko competese in Birmingham 2023 2023 AI / Reuters / Panoramic
Latvian Jelena Ostapenko advanced to the first round of the Western & Southern Open by edging out Karolina Pliskova 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati.
Ostapenko, ranked No 20, will play No 4 seed Elena Rybakina 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
- Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Barbora Krejcikova: tuesday
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Caroline Wozniacki: tuesday
- 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
- 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
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