Defending champion Coco Gauff suffered a shock defeat to Yulia Putintseva in her opening match of the Cincinnati Open.
Gauff, who additionally received final 12 months’s US Open to safe a primary Grand Slam title, had no response as Putintseva took the final 4 video games of the match to battle to a 6-4 2-6 6-4 victory.
Putintseva, who knocked out world No 1 Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon this 12 months, will face Spain’s Paula Badosa within the last-16.
It wasn’t the one shock within the girls’s attract Cincinnati on Thursday, as fourth seed Elena Rybakina too was knocked out within the second spherical, shedding to Leylah Fernandez 3-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-4.
Fernandez, who was runner-up to Nice Britain’s Emma Raducanu on the 2021 US Open, appeared again to her finest on the laborious courts because the Canadian steps up her preparations for an additional run at Flushing Meadows.
Fernandez will subsequent face Diana Shnaider within the third spherical after she comfortably beat American Ashlyn Krueger on Thursday.
Third seed Aryna Sabalenka booked a spot within the final 16 in Cincinnati with a 6-3 6-4 win over Elisabetta Cocciaretto of Italy.
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Highlights of Aryna Sabalenka in opposition to Elisabetta Cocciaretto from the Cincinnati Open
Awaiting the two-time Australian Open champion within the third spherical is Elina Svitolina after the favored Ukrainian made gentle work of Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro with an emphatic 6-4 6-1 victory.
Elsewhere, 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva beat veteran Czech Karolina Pliskova 6-2 6-3 to proceed her progress.
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