Cincinnati Open: Fernandez advances to last 16

Canadian Leylah Fernandez moved into the last 16 of the Western & Southern Open by edging out Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 4 seed, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Thursday evening.

Fernandez, ranked No 27, will play the winner of the match between American qualifier Ashlyn Krueger and Russian Diana Shnaider next.

The 21-year-old Canadian won against Chinese Yue Yuan (3-6, 6-4, 6-3) ahead of her victory.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other second-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Jessica Pegula vs. Karolina Muchova
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Magdalena Frech
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Coco Gauff
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Paula Badosa
• Taylor Townsend vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Magda Linette: thursday
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: thursday
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Diana Shnaider: thursday
• Elina Avanesyan (LL) beat Jelena Ostapenko (8): 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Elina Svitolina beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (LL): 6-4, 6-1
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-0, 6-7 (8), 6-2
• Marta Kostyuk (15) beat Lulu Sun (Q): 6-3, 7-5