Western & Southern Open: Potapova cruises through first round

Russian Anastasia Potapova edged out Swiss wild card Celine Naef 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 to move into the first round of the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Tennis Family Center in Cincinnati on Monday evening.

Potapova, ranked No 27, will play the winner of the match between No 10 seed Marketa Vondrousova and Katerina Siniakova next.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other round of 64 results:

• 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
• Lin Zhu vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Karolina Muchova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Venus Williams vs. Veronika Kudermetova: monday
• Jasmine Paolini (Q) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-1
• Sloane Stephens beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 7-5, 6-2