Western & Southern Open: Potapova sets up second round clash against Paolini

Russian Anastasia Potapova won against Frenchwoman Clara Burel 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on Tuesday.

Potapova, ranked No 44, will play Jasmine Paolini, the fifth seed and recent French Open and Wimbledon runner-up, at the Lindner Family Tennis Center next.

The Russian beat Paolini in their only previous encounter on the WTA Tour, a three-set win in the round of 16 in Indian Wells earlier this year.

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

• 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)
• 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
• Harriet Dart vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Bianca Andreescu

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