Pole Iga Swiatek, the No 3 seed, beat Russian Anastasia Potapova 6-1, 6-4 to advance to the round of 32 of the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Saturday.
Swiatek, ranked No 3, will play Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 25 seed, next. Kostyuk advanced by dismantling German Tatjana Maria 6-0, 6-1 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Saturday evening.
This is Swiatek’s 64th consecutive opening match won at WTA events (including United Cup and WTA
Finals). She’s the first player since Monica Seles to do so (64 between Washington 1990 and
Oakland 1996).
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other 64 results (Lindner Family Tennis Center, hard, USD 5.152.599, most recent results first):
Leolia Jeanjean vs. Amanda Anisimova
Xinyu Wang vs. Coco Gauff
Dayana Yastremska vs. Viktoriya Tomova
Camila Osorio vs. Jelena Ostapenko
Daria Kasatkina vs. Lucia Bronzetti
Barbora Krejcikova vs. Elina Svitolina
Linda Noskova vs. Iva Jovic
Anastasija Sevastova vs. Ashlyn Krueger
Jasmine Paolini vs. Maria Sakkari
Kimberly Birrell vs. Jessica Pegula
Magda Linette vs. Rebecca Sramkova
Veronika Kudermetova vs. Belinda Bencic
Clara Tauson vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
Caroline Garcia vs. Karolina Muchova
Sofia Kenin vs. Varvara Gracheva
Catherine McNally vs. McCartney Kessler
Emma Navarro vs. Ella Seidel
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Marketa Vondrousova
Anna Kalinskaya vs. Peyton Stearns
Yue Yuan vs. Diana Shnaider
Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Lulu Sun
Elena Rybakina vs. Renata Zarazua
Clervie Ngounoue vs. Elise Mertens
Taylor Townsend vs. Liudmila Samsonova
Olga Danilovic vs. Emma Raducanu
Eva Lys vs. Madison Keys
Maya Joint vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
Magdalena Frech vs. Sorana Cirstea
Leylah Fernandez vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Marta Kostyuk beat Tatjana Maria: 6-0, 6-1
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Aoi Ito: saturday