Tennis in the Land: Alexandrova brushes aside Tig to move into last 16

Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 4 seed, won against Romanian Patricia Maria Tig 6-1, 6-4 to move into the last 16 of the Tennis in the Land at Cleveland’s iconic Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica in Flats West Bank.

Alexandrova, ranked No 21, will play the winner of the match between American Emma Navarro and Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich next.

Cleveland WTA 250, other round of 32 results (Cleveland’s iconic Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica in Flats West Bank, hard, USD 271.363, most recent results first):

• Tatjana Maria vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Sloane Stephens vs. Lauren Davis
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Ana Bogdan
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Tamara Korpatsch
• Caroline Garcia vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Clara Tauson vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Magdalena Frech vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Peyton Stearns vs. Martina Trevisan
• Clara Burel vs. Xinyu Wang
• Emma Navarro vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Xiyu Wang vs. Julia Grabher
• Leylah Fernandez (WC) beat Linda Noskova: 6-0, 6-2
• Lin Zhu beat Anna Blinkova (8): 6-0, 6-3