WTA Cincinnati: Pavlyuchenkova upsets 17th seed Haddad Maia to reach second round

Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the No 17 seed, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 to move into the second round of the WTA Western & Southern Open on Wednesday.

This was the Russian’s fourth win in as many over matches over Haddad Maia, including her third of the 2024 season.

Pavlyuchenkova, ranked No 28, will play Danish wildcard Caroline Wozniacki at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati. Wozniacki holds a 7-1 edge in career head-to-head but the players have met only twice (both times in 2017 which the Dane won) since 2012.

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

• Karolina Muchova beat Dayana Yastremska: 7-6 (6), 6-2
• Mirra Andreeva beat Emma Navarro (11): 6-2, 6-2
• Liudmila Samsonova (10) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-4, 6-4
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (LL) beat Lucia Bronzetti (LL): 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1)
• Taylor Townsend (Q) beat Caroline Dolehide (WC): 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7)
• Leylah Fernandez beat Yue Yuan: 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Anna Kalinskaya (13) beat Katerina Siniakova: 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Paula Badosa beat Peyton Stearns (WC): 6-2, 7-5
• 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)
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Magdalena Frech

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