Western & Southern Open: Noskova outlasts Samsonova, sets Kvitova clash
Linda Noskova defeated Liudmila Samsonova 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 on Wednesday night and will play No 9 seed Petra Kvitova in the next round
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Qualifier Linda Noskova defeated Russian Liudmila Samsonova 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 to move into the second round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.
Samsonova, who was on the wrong end of a 6-1, 6-0 thrashing in the Montreal final on Sunday, also ran out of steam in this match, with her level dropping off in the third set.
Noskova, ranked No 50, will face No 9 seed Petra Kvitova next.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other round of 64 results (Linder Tennis Family Center, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):
- Madison Keys vs. Elise Mertens
- Sorana Cirstea beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 6-0, 6-2
- Donna Vekic beat Jennifer Brady: 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Belinda Bencic (13): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Danielle Collins (WC) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-1
- Ann Li (Q) beat Magda Linette: 0-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Marketa Vondrousova (10) beat Katerina Siniakova: 7-5, 6-4
- Karolina Muchova beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (12): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-4
- Marie Bouzkova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-2, 6-2
- Petra Martic beat Emma Navarro (Q): 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
- Qinwen Zheng beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 6-1, 6-4
- Mayar Sherif beat Xiyu Wang (Q): 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (5)
- Victoria Azarenka beat Barbora Krejcikova (11): 6-3, 7-5
- 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 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 (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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