Russian Diana Shnaider advanced to the last 16 of the Western & Southern Open after defeating American qualifier Ashlyn Krueger 7-5, 6-0 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati on Thursday evening.
Currently ranked No 20, Shnaider will face Canadian Leylah Fernandez in the next round.
The 20-year-old Russian also recently defeated Chinese Shuai Zhang (6-1, 6-4) prior to her latest win.
In the previous round of the Cincy Open, Krueger, ranked No 65, defeated Croat Donna Vekic, the No 16 seed (5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2).
Additional second-round results from the Cincinnati WTA 1000 tournament at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on hard courts with a prize of USD 3,211,715 are as follows (most recent results listed 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 defeated Elena Rybakina (4) with a score of 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan (LL) defeated Jelena Ostapenko (8) with a score of 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Elina Svitolina defeated Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (LL) with a score of 6-4, 6-1
- Iga Swiatek (1) defeated Varvara Gracheva (Q) with a score of 6-0, 6-7 (8), 6-2
- Marta Kostyuk (15) defeated Lulu Sun (Q) with a score of 6-3, 7-5
