WTA National Bank Open: Shnaider through to second round, edges past Dart
Diana Shnaider squeaked past Harriet Dart (6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2)) on Wednesday and will face Pole Magdalena Frech in the next round
Diana Shnaider, Budapest, 2024 © Zuma / Panoramic
National Bank Open presented by Rogers •Second round •
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Russian Diana Shnaider, the No 14 seed, reached the second round of WTA Toronto by edging out lucky loser Harriet Dart (6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2)) at the Aviva Centre on Wednesday afternoon in a tense third set.
Shnaider, ranked No 24, will face Pole Magdalena Frech on Thursday
Toronto WTA 1000, other first-round results (most recent results first):
- Shuai Zhang vs. Leylah Fernandez
- Bernarda Pera vs. Katie Boulter
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Yue Yuan
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Magda Linette vs. Rebecca Marino
- Ons Jabeur vs. Naomi Osaka
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Amanda Anisimova: wednesday
- Peyton Stearns beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 6-3
- Erika Andreeva vs. Marina Stakusic: wednesday
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (13) beat Marie Bouzkova: 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (1)
- Paula Badosa beat Clara Tauson: 6-1, 6-4
- Elise Mertens beat Katie Volynets (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Greet Minnen (Q) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-2, 6-2
- Anna Kalinskaya (10) beat Louisa Chirico (Q): 6-2, 6-3
- Lesia Tsurenko beat Bianca Andreescu (WC): 0-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Taylor Townsend (LL) beat Dayana Yastremska (16): 6-3, 3-1 ret.
- Karolina Pliskova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-4, 7-6 (10)
- Victoria Azarenka (12) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-2, 6-2
- Yafan Wang (Q) beat Sofia Kenin: 7-5, 7-6 (3)
- Elina Svitolina beat Shelby Rogers: 6-0, 6-2
- Moyuka Uchijima (Q) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Magdalena Frech beat Anastasia Potapova: 4-6, 6-3, 6-0
- Marta Kostyuk (11) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-0, 6-2
