American Coco Gauff, the second seed, moved into the last 16 of the Cincinnati Open after Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 32 seed, withdrew two hours before the match on Tuesday at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.
“For the past few days, I’ve been taking strong antibiotics, which have caused severe intoxication”, Yastremska explained to the media Ukrainian Tennis. I even considered skipping my previous match, but I was hoping it would pass.”
“However, under physical exertion my heart rate spikes and I feel extremely weak. During the match against Tomova (6-4, 2-6, 6-2), I felt really unwell – my heart was just racing… Yesterday I didn’t practice at all, and together with my doctors we decided not to risk my health. For now, I’ll take a few days off from training, and then I’ll start preparing for the US Open.”
Gauff, ranked No 2, will face the winner of the match between Italian Lucia Bronzetti and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 23 seed, next.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other 32 results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 5.152.599, most recent results first):
Clara Tauson vs. Veronika Kudermetova
Magda Linette vs. Jessica Pegula
Lucia Bronzetti vs. Jelena Ostapenko
Varvara Gracheva vs. Karolina Muchova
Jasmine Paolini vs. Ashlyn Krueger
Iva Jovic vs. Barbora Krejcikova: tuesday
Ella Seidel vs. McCartney Kessler: tuesday
Elena Rybakina (9) beat Elise Mertens (19): 4-6, 6-3, 7-5
Madison Keys (6) beat Aoi Ito (Q): 6-4, 6-0
Anna Kalinskaya (28) beat Amanda Anisimova (5): 7-5, 6-4
Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Emma Raducanu (30): 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (5)
Sorana Cirstea beat Yue Yuan (LL): 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4
Ekaterina Alexandrova (12) beat Maya Joint: 6-4, 6-3
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Taylor Townsend (WC): 6-4, 6-1
Iga Swiatek (3) beat Marta Kostyuk (25): W/O