Western & Southern Open: Martic sees off Navarro, moves into second round

Croat Petra Martic defeated American qualifier Emma Navarro 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening.

Despite the discrepancy in ranking, it still took Petra Martic almost two hours to get past Navarro, who was playing some good tennis after having qualified for this week’s tournament.

Martic, ranked No 36, will face the winner of the match between Karolina Muchova and Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 12 seed, 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
• Jennifer Brady vs. Donna Vekic
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Belinda Bencic
• Danielle Collins vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Magda Linette vs. Ann Li
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Karolina Muchova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: tuesday
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Marie Bouzkova: tuesday
• Qinwen Zheng beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif: tuesday
• 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 (Q) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-1
• Sloane Stephens beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 7-5, 6-2