Cincinnati Open: Joint advances to round of 32, defeating seeded Haddad Maia

Australian Maya Joint edged out Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 18 seed, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to move into the 32 of the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Saturday.

Joint, ranked No 45, will play the winner of the match between Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 12 seed, and New Zealander Lulu Sun next.

The 19-year-old Australian won against Belgian Greet Minnen (6-2, 6-3) in the previous round of the Cincinnati tournament.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other 64 results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 5.152.599, most recent results first):

• Caroline Garcia vs. Karolina Muchova
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Elina Svitolina
• Linda Noskova vs. Iva Jovic
• Sofia Kenin vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Catherine McNally vs. McCartney Kessler
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Jessica Pegula

• Camila Osorio vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Xinyu Wang vs. Coco Gauff
• Magda Linette vs. Rebecca Sramkova
• Clara Tauson vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Emma Navarro vs. Ella Seidel
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Anastasija Sevastova vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Maria Sakkari
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Belinda Bencic
• Leolia Jeanjean vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Peyton Stearns
• Clervie Ngounoue vs. Elise Mertens
• Elena Rybakina vs. Renata Zarazua: saturday
• Yue Yuan vs. Diana Shnaider: saturday
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Lulu Sun: saturday
• Emma Raducanu (30) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-3, 6-2
• Taylor Townsend (WC) beat Liudmila Samsonova (13): 6-2, 6-4
• Madison Keys (6) beat Eva Lys: 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1)
• Sorana Cirstea beat Magdalena Frech (22): 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-4
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Leylah Fernandez (21): 6-3, 6-3
• Marta Kostyuk (25) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-0, 6-1
• Iga Swiatek (3) beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-1, 6-4
• Aoi Ito (Q) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27): 6-1, 4-6, 6-4