Western & Southern Open: Shnaider through to last 16

Russian Diana Shnaider reached the last 16 of the Western & Southern Open by winning against American qualifier Ashlyn Krueger 7-5, 6-0 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Thursday evening.

Shnaider, ranked No 20, will play Canadian Leylah Fernandez next.

The 20-year-old Russian defeated Chinese Shuai Zhang (6-1, 6-4) ahead of her victory.

In the previous round of the Cincy Open, Krueger, ranked No 65, beat Croat Donna Vekic, the No 16 seed (5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2).

Cincinnati WTA 1000, other second-round results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):

• Jessica Pegula vs. Karolina Muchova
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Magdalena Frech
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Coco Gauff
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Paula Badosa
• Taylor Townsend vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Magda Linette: thursday
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto: thursday
• Leylah Fernandez beat Elena Rybakina (4): 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4
• Elina Avanesyan (LL) beat Jelena Ostapenko (8): 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Elina Svitolina beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (LL): 6-4, 6-1
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Varvara Gracheva (Q): 6-0, 6-7 (8), 6-2
• Marta Kostyuk (15) beat Lulu Sun (Q): 6-3, 7-5