Cincinnati Open: Townsend rules out seeded Samsonova

American wildcard Taylor Townsend moved into the round of 32 of the Cincinnati Open by beating Russian Liudmila Samsonova (photo), the No 13 seed, 6-2, 6-4 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Saturday evening. Townsend, ranked No 75, will play Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro next. The American won against Danielle Collins (6-4, 7-6 (2)) ahead of her victory.

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
• Yue Yuan vs. Diana Shnaider: saturday
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Lulu Sun: saturday
• Olga Danilovic vs. Emma Raducanu: saturday
• Maya Joint vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: saturday
• 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