Danielle Collins Advances to First Round of Cincinnati Tournament

The American wild card Danielle Collins qualified for the first round of the Cincinnati tournament, beating the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova without being worried by the score (6-3, 6-1) Tuesday evening in Cincinnati.

Collins, ranked No. 34 in the WTA, will face No. 1 seed Iga Swiatek in the first round of the Cincy Open.

The other meetings of the 32nd finals in Cincinnati (WTA 1000, hard, 2,788,468 USD, results are displayed from newest to oldest):

• Madison Keys – Elise Mertens: scheduled for Wednesday
• Linda Noskova – Liudmila Samsonova: scheduled Tuesday
• Jennifer Brady – Donna Vekic: scheduled for Tuesday
• Ekaterina Alexandrova – Sorana Cirstea: scheduled for Tuesday
• Cristina Bucsa – Belinda Bencic: scheduled for Tuesday
• Magda Linette – Ann Li: scheduled for Tuesday
• Marketa Vondrousova (N.10) – Katerina Siniakova : 7-5, 6-4
• Karolina Muchova – Beatriz Haddad Maia (N.12) : 6-7 [3]6-1, 6-4
• Marie Bouzkova – Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-2, 6-2
• Petra Martic – Emma Navarro (Q): 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
• Qinwen Zheng – Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Q): 6-1, 6-4
• Mayar Sherif – Xiyu Wang (Q): 7-6 [3]4-6, 7-6 [5]
• Victoria Azarenka – Barbora Krejcikova (N.11) : 6-3, 7-5
• Varvara Gracheva (LL) – Caroline Wozniacki (WC): 6-4, 6-4
• Daria Kasatkina (N.14) – Peyton Stearns (WC) : 6-2, 6-1
• Martina Trevisan (Q) – Bernarda Pera : 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
• Petra Kvitova (N.9) – Anna Blinkova: 7-6 [2]6-0
• Jelena Ostapenko – Karolina Pliskova: 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
• Anhelina Kalinina – Lin Zhu : 6-3, 7-5
• Venus Williams (WC) – Veronika Kudermetova (N.16) : 6-4, 7-5
• Anastasia Potapova – Celine Naef (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Jasmine Paolini (Q) – Marta Kostyuk : 6-2, 6-1
• Sloane Stephens – Elisabetta Cocciaretto : 7-5, 6-2