Cincinnati Open: Swiatek equals a Seles record

Pole Iga Swiatek, the No 3 seed, beat Russian Anastasia Potapova 6-1, 6-4 to advance to the round of 32 of the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Saturday.

Swiatek, ranked No 3, will play Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 25 seed, next. Kostyuk advanced by dismantling German Tatjana Maria 6-0, 6-1 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Saturday evening.

This is Swiatek’s 64th consecutive opening match won at WTA events (including United Cup and WTA
Finals). She’s the first player since Monica Seles to do so (64 between Washington 1990 and
Oakland 1996).

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

• Leolia Jeanjean vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Xinyu Wang vs. Coco Gauff
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Camila Osorio vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Elina Svitolina
• Linda Noskova vs. Iva Jovic

• Anastasija Sevastova vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Maria Sakkari
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Jessica Pegula
• Magda Linette vs. Rebecca Sramkova
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Belinda Bencic
• Clara Tauson vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Caroline Garcia vs. Karolina Muchova
• Sofia Kenin vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Catherine McNally vs. McCartney Kessler
• Emma Navarro vs. Ella Seidel
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Peyton Stearns
• Yue Yuan vs. Diana Shnaider
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Lulu Sun
• Elena Rybakina vs. Renata Zarazua
• Clervie Ngounoue vs. Elise Mertens
• Taylor Townsend vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Olga Danilovic vs. Emma Raducanu
• Eva Lys vs. Madison Keys
• Maya Joint vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Magdalena Frech vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
• Marta Kostyuk beat Tatjana Maria: 6-0, 6-1
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Aoi Ito: saturday