Cincinnati Open: World No 127 Seidel upsets Navarro!

German qualifier Ella Seidel edged out American Emma Navarro, the No 8 seed, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 to advance to the 32 of the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Sunday. This is by far the main upset in the woman’s draw of the event so far.

Aged 20, Seidel is making her first appearance in a main draw at the WTA 1000 level. This victory is the biggest in her career so far. She had defeated world No 28 Anna Kalinskaya in Berlin last June.

Seidel, ranked No 127, will play the winner of the match between wildcard Catherine McNally and No 29 seed McCartney Kessler next.

In the previous round of the Cincinnati tournament, she had won against Russian Polina Kudermetova (1-6, 6-3, 6-2).

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
• Jelena Ostapenko (23) beat Camila Osorio: W/O
• Linda Noskova vs. Iva Jovic
• Sofia Kenin vs. Varvara Gracheva

• Catherine McNally vs. McCartney Kessler
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Jessica Pegula: sunday
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Lucia Bronzetti: sunday
• Coco Gauff (2) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-2
• Clara Tauson vs. Ajla Tomljanovic: sunday
• Magda Linette (31) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 7-6 (4), 6-0
• Dayana Yastremska (32) beat Viktoriya Tomova (Q): 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
• Ashlyn Krueger (26) beat Anastasija Sevastova: 6-4, 0-6, 6-3
• Jasmine Paolini (7) beat Maria Sakkari: 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5)
• Veronika Kudermetova beat Belinda Bencic (17): 6-4, 7-6
• Amanda Anisimova (5) beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): W/O
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Marketa Vondrousova: 7-5, 6-1
• Anna Kalinskaya (28) beat Peyton Stearns: 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-1
• Elise Mertens (19) beat Clervie Ngounoue (Q): 3-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5
• Elena Rybakina (9) beat Renata Zarazua: 4-6, 6-0, 7-5
• Yue Yuan (LL) beat Diana Shnaider (14): 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
• Ekaterina Alexandrova (12) beat Lulu Sun: 6-4, 6-2
• Emma Raducanu (30) beat Olga Danilovic: 6-3, 6-2
• Taylor Townsend (WC) beat Liudmila Samsonova (13): 6-2, 6-4
• Maya Joint beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (18): 6-4, 4-6, 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