Western & Southern Open: Paolini beats Kostyuk in round one

Italian qualifier Jasmine Paolini reached the second round of the Western & Southern Open by beating Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk 6-2, 6-1 at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Monday evening.

Paolini, ranked No 43, will face the winner of the match between Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa and Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No 13 seed, next.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round results (Linder Tennis Family Center, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):

• Elina Svitolina vs. Caroline Wozniacki
• Magda Linette vs. Ann Li
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Peyton Stearns
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Barbora Krejcikova
• Jennifer Brady vs. Donna Vekic
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Madison Keys vs. Elise Mertens
• Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif
• Linda Noskova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Petra Kvitova vs. Anna Blinkova
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Belinda Bencic
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Danielle Collins vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Bernarda Pera vs. Martina Trevisan
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Petra Martic vs. Emma Navarro
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Lin Zhu vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Karolina Muchova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Celine Naef vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Venus Williams vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Sloane Stephens vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: monday