Western & Southern Open: Sun reaches second round

New Zealander qualifier Lulu Sun advanced to the second round of the Western & Southern Open by winning against Linda Noskova 6-4, 7-6 (4) at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening.

Sun, ranked No 64, will face the winner of the match between Belgian Elise Mertens and Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 15 seed, next.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Elina Avanesyan vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Peyton Stearns vs. Paula Badosa
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Magdalena Frech
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Yue Yuan
• Diana Shnaider vs. Shuai Zhang
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Taylor Townsend
• Karolina Muchova vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Emma Navarro vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Elina Svitolina vs. Yafan Wang
• Harriet Dart vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Katie Boulter vs. Magda Linette
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Clara Burel
• Robin Montgomery vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Donna Vekic vs. Ashlyn Krueger: tuesday
• Elise Mertens vs. Marta Kostyuk: tuesday
• Karolina Pliskova beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
• Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5)