Western & Southern Open: Kasatkina makes second round

No 9 seed Daria Kasatkina advanced to the second round of the Western & Southern Open by defeating Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 6-2 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday.

Kasatkina, ranked No 12, will face the winner of the match between wildcard Caroline Dolehide and qualifier Taylor Townsend next.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Elina Avanesyan vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Peyton Stearns vs. Paula Badosa
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Magdalena Frech
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Yue Yuan
• Diana Shnaider vs. Shuai Zhang
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Taylor Townsend
• Karolina Muchova vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Xinyu Wang
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Emma Navarro vs. Mirra Andreeva
• Elina Svitolina vs. Yafan Wang
• Harriet Dart vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Katie Boulter vs. Magda Linette
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Clara Burel
• Robin Montgomery vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: tuesday
• Donna Vekic vs. Ashlyn Krueger: tuesday
• Lulu Sun (Q) beat Linda Noskova: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Marta Kostyuk (15) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
• Karolina Pliskova beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
• Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5)