Western & Southern Open: Putintseva moves into second round to face Gauff

Kazakh Yulia Putintseva defeated qualifier Harriet Dart 4-6, 6-0, 6-1 to reach the second round of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on Tuesday.

Putintseva, ranked No 33, will face second seed Coco Gauff next at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. This will be the fourth meeting between the two players with Gauff winning all of their three previous clashes.

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

• 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)
• 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
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Bianca Andreescu

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