Western & Southern Open: Noskova outlasts Samsonova, sets Kvitova clash

Qualifier Linda Noskova defeated Russian Liudmila Samsonova 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 to move into the second round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.

Samsonova, who was on the wrong end of a 6-1, 6-0 thrashing in the Montreal final on Sunday, also ran out of steam in this match, with her level dropping off in the third set.

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Noskova, ranked No 50, will face No 9 seed Petra Kvitova 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
• Sorana Cirstea beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 6-0, 6-2
• Donna Vekic beat Jennifer Brady: 7-6 (5), 7-5
• Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Belinda Bencic (13): 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
• 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 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