Western & Southern Open: Bucsa stuns Bencic for place in second round

Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa moved into the second round of the Western & Southern Open by winning against Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No 13 seed, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.

The result comes as a shock with Bencic having had a strong year so far, winning 28 matches for the loss of just 10. However, the world No 14 was woeful on serve today, making 14 double faults and landing less than half of her first serves.

With Bucsa breaking Bencic 10 times across the two hour, 29 minute encounter, the world No 84 now moves on to face Italian qualifier Jasmine Paolini next.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other round of 64 results (Linder Tennis Family Center, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):

• Madison Keys vs. Elise Mertens
• Linda Noskova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Sorana Cirstea beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 6-0, 6-2
• Donna Vekic beat Jennifer Brady: 7-6 (5), 7-5
• Danielle Collins (WC) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-1
• Ann Li (Q) beat Magda Linette: 0-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2
• Marketa Vondrousova (10) beat Katerina Siniakova: 7-5, 6-4
• Karolina Muchova beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (12): 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-4
• Marie Bouzkova beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-2, 6-2
• Petra Martic beat Emma Navarro (Q): 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Mayar Sherif beat Xiyu Wang (Q): 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (5)
• Victoria Azarenka beat Barbora Krejcikova (11): 6-3, 7-5
• Varvara Gracheva (LL) beat Caroline Wozniacki (WC): 6-4, 6-4
• Daria Kasatkina (14) beat Peyton Stearns (WC): 6-2, 6-1
• Martina Trevisan (Q) beat Bernarda Pera: 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Petra Kvitova (9) beat Anna Blinkova: 7-6 (2), 6-0
• Jelena Ostapenko beat Karolina Pliskova: 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Anhelina Kalinina beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 7-5
• Venus Williams (WC) beat Veronika Kudermetova (16): 6-4, 7-5
• Anastasia Potapova beat Celine Naef (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Jasmine Paolini beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-1
• Sloane Stephens beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 7-5, 6-2