Western & Southern Open: Bouzkova blasts past Begu to make second round

Marie Bouzkova won against Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu 6-2, 6-2 to move into the second round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday afternoon.

The Czech player was brutal on return, breaking Begu’s serve on seven occasions and winning the majority of points on both her opponent’s serves.

Bouzkova, ranked No 35, will play the winner of the match between American Madison Keys, the No 15 seed, and Belgian Elise Mertens 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
• Danielle Collins vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Magda Linette vs. Ann Li
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Karolina Muchova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia: tuesday
• Petra Martic beat Emma Navarro (Q): 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif: tuesday
• 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