Badosa beats Stearns to reach Cincinnati second round
Paula Badosa is through to the last 32 at the WTA 1000 event in Cincinnati following Wednesday’s straight-set success against Peyton Stearns.
Paula Badosa (ESP) defeated Leylah Fernandez (CAN) 6-4, 6-4, at the BNP Paribas Open being played at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California on March 15, 2022: || 225043_0011 1000 2022 ATP BNP BNP PARIBAS OPEN CHAMPION Indian INDIAN WELLS MASTERS open Paribas PRESS sport tennis WTA zagency zcsm zselect zsports Zuma ZUMAPRESS.com zwire
Spaniard Paula Badosa reached the second round of the Western & Southern Open by defeating American wild card Peyton Stearns 6-2, 7-5 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Wednesday afternoon.
Badosa, ranked No 37, awaits the winner of a match between Russian Anna Kalinskaya, the No 13 seed, and Katerina Siniakova.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round results:
- Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Magdalena Frech
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Emma Navarro vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Karolina Muchova vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Xinyu Wang
- Caroline Dolehide vs. Taylor Townsend
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Yue Yuan: wednesday
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova: wednesday
- Diana Shnaider beat Shuai Zhang: 6-1, 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan (LL) beat Bianca Andreescu (WC): 6-4, 7-5
- Yulia Putintseva beat Harriet Dart (Q): 4-6, 6-0, 6-1
- Anastasia Potapova beat Clara Burel: 6-4, 2-6, 6-1
- Magda Linette beat Katie Boulter: 2-6, 6-0, 7-5
- Elina Svitolina beat Yafan Wang (Q): 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Robin Montgomery (Q): 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova: 6-4, 6-2
- Ashlyn Krueger (Q) beat Donna Vekic (16): 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Lulu Sun (Q) beat Linda Noskova: 6-4, 7-6 (4)
- Marta Kostyuk (15) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
- Karolina Pliskova beat Viktoriya Tomova: 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3)
- Varvara Gracheva (Q) beat Ajla Tomljanovic: 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (5)
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