Canadian Open: Kasatkina cruises through her opening match

Australian Daria Kasatkina, the No 15 seed, advanced to the third round of the Canadian Open by beating Russian Anna Blinkova 6-1, 6-4 at the IGA Stadium in Montreal on Tuesday evening.

Kasatkina, ranked No 18, will face the winner of the match between Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 24 seed, and Czech Marketa Vondrousova next.

Blinkova, ranked No 79, won against American Caroline Dolehide (6-4, 6-1) in the previous round of the Rogers Cup.

Montreal WTA 1000, other second-round results (IGA Stadium, hard, USD 5.152.599, most recent results first):

• Sofia Kenin vs. Victoria Mboko
• Hanyu Guo vs. Iga Swiatek
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Eva Lys
• Yuliia Starodubtseva vs. Magdalena Frech
• Clara Tauson vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Antonia Ruzic vs. Karolina Muchova
• Belinda Bencic vs. Eugenie Bouchard
• Madison Keys vs. Laura Siegemund
• Maria Sakkari vs. Jessica Pegula
• Magda Linette vs. Anastasija Sevastova
• Renata Zarazua vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Naomi Osaka
• Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Elina Svitolina
• Emma Raducanu vs. Peyton Stearns
• Amanda Anisimova vs. Lulu Sun
• Suzan Lamens vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Coco Gauff vs. Danielle Collins
• Elena Rybakina vs. Hailey Baptiste
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Lin Zhu
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Diana Shnaider
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Aoi Ito vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Olga Danilovic
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Linda Noskova
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Emma Navarro (8) beat Rebecca Marino (WC): 6-1, 6-2
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Camila Osorio: tuesday