Canadian Open: Stephens sets second round clash against Azarenka

American Sloane Stephens won against Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina 6-4, 7-6 (2) to advance to the second round of the Canadian Open at Stade IGA in Montreal on Monday night.

The win sets Stephens, ranked No 38, against Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 16 seed, next.

Montreal WTA 1000, other 64 results (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):

• Elise Mertens vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Katie Boulter vs. Rebecca Marino: tuesday
• Petra Martic vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Alycia Parks vs. Lauren Davis
• Camila Giorgi vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Anna Blinkova vs. Shuai Zhang
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Mayar Sherif
• Bernarda Pera vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Danielle Collins vs. Elina Svitolina
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Peyton Stearns
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Paula Badosa
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Karolina Muchova
• Jennifer Brady vs. Jelena Ostapenko: monday
• Madison Keys (13) beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-2, 7-5
• Belinda Bencic (12) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Victoria Azarenka beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-0
• Marie Bouzkova beat Kayla Day (Q): 7-6 (1), 6-3
• Jasmine Paolini beat Donna Vekic: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Karolina Pliskova beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-2