US Open Champion Sloane Stephens qualified for the third round of the Cincinnati hardcore tennis tournament with a prize pool of $ 2. 87 million. The American placed the number 3 in the scheme beat the qualifier Tatjana Maria (Germany) with 6:3, 6:2 in 71 minutes. Stephens, who lost the Montreal final to Simona Halep (Romania) last week, suffered a right-hand puncture between the third and fourth games via soccer livescore of the second set, but had no trouble playing the game.
Last year, the American played in Cincinnati, which is her best performance of six tournament entries. Stevens` next rival is number 15 Elise Mertens (Belgium) who eliminates Rebecca Peterson (Sweden) with 3:6, 6:2, 7:6 (1) in 2:36.
The champion for the year 2016 and the 9th placed Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) dropped into the second round after losing by Aryna Sabanelka (Belarus) with 6:2, 3:6, 5:7 for 1:55. Sabanelka saved two matches in the tenth game of the third set in order to make it to success, and in the third round will play against the number 6 Caroline Garcia (France).
The Russian Ekaterina Makarova defeated Alize Cornet (France) with 6:2, 6:0. Her defending title and the seventh placed Garbine Muguruza (Spain) is currently playing against Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine).
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