Western & Southern Open: Muchova triumphs in three-set battle with Haddad Maia
Karolina Muchova edged out Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday evening and will play Croat Petra Martic in the next round
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Karolina Muchova advanced to the second round of the Western & Southern Open by edging out Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 12 seed, 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-4 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening.
After dropping a tight first set, Muchova showed her pedigree by storming back into the match, dropping only five more games en route to the first-round victory.
Muchova, ranked No 17, will face Croat Petra Martic 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: tuesday
- Danielle Collins (WC) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-3, 6-1
- Magda Linette vs. Ann Li: tuesday
- Marketa Vondrousova (10) beat Katerina Siniakova: 7-5, 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 (Q) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-1
- Sloane Stephens beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 7-5, 6-2
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