Western & Southern Open: Qinwen Zheng brushes aside Sasnovich to make second round

Chinese Qinwen Zheng defeated Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-1, 6-4 to move into the first round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati.

Zheng, ranked No 24, will play American wildcard Venus Williams next.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other last 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: tuesday
• Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif: tuesday
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Barbora Krejcikova: tuesday
• 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 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