Western & Southern Open: Shnaider moves into second round

It has been a tale of two very different seasons for Russian Diana Shnaider and Chinese veteran Shuai Zhang, so their result on Wednesday at the Western & Southern Open was no surprise.

Shnaider rolled 6-1, 6-4 to continue her breakout year while extending Zhang’s unbelievable losing streak. The 35-year-old has now lost 22 matches in a row, breaking the Open Era record on either the WTA or ATP Tour. She has not won a match in 19 months.

Shnaider, who is up to No 20 in the rankings, will play American qualifier Ashlyn Krueger in the next round on Thursday.

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other first-round results:

• 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. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katerina Siniakova: wednesday
• Peyton Stearns vs. Paula Badosa: wednesday
• 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 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)

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