Cincinnati Open: Townsend rules out seeded Samsonova
Taylor Townsend defeated Liudmila Samsonova 6-2, 6-4 on Saturday evening. She’ll play Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in the next round
Liudmila Samsonova, Montreal 2023
Image Credit: Zuma / Panoramic
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
