Western & Southern Open: Cocciaretto advances to second round to face Sabalenka

Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat American qualifier Robin Montgomery 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to advance to the second round of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on Tuesday.

Cocciaretto, ranked No 66, needed two medical timeouts during the match for her injured thigh before competing the win.

The Italian will play No 3 seed Aryna Sabalenka next at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. It will be the first meeting between the two players.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3,211,715):

• 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)
• 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
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Yue Yuan
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Taylor Townsend
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Peyton Stearns vs. Paula Badosa
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Diana Shnaider vs. Shuai Zhang
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Harriet Dart vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Clara Burel
• Katie Boulter vs. Magda Linette
• Elina Svitolina vs. Yafan Wang

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