CINCINNATI — Nuno Borges and Magdalena Frech, the highest males’s and ladies’s seeds within the Cincinnati Open, superior with wins within the qualifying spherical Monday.
Borges, from Portugal, beat Aleksandar Vukic of Australia 7-6 (4), 6-1, and Frech, from Poland, beat 14th-seeded Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain 6-1, 6-4.
Six People — three males and three girls — superior in the principle attracts. No. 5 seed Alex Michelsen of Aliso Viejo, California, defeated Mackenzie McDonald of Orlando, Florida, 6-3, 6-2; Brandon Holt of Rolling Hills, California, beat Zachary Svajda of San Diego 6-4, 2-6, 6-3; and Aleksandar Kovacevic of New York obtained previous Australia’s Rinky Hijikata 6-1, 7-6 (5).
Within the girls’s draw, Twelfth-seeded Taylor Townsend of Smyrna, Georgia, beat No. 4 Katie Volynets of Walnut Creek, California, 6-0, 6-3; Robin Montgomery of Washington defeated No. 16 Martina Trevisan of Italy 6-4, 6-4; and Ashlyn Krueger of Springfield, Missouri, edged Japan’s Naomi Osaka 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.
For the boys, Italy’s Flavio Cobolli beat Tenth-seeded Tommy Paul of Boca Raton, Florida, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5. No. 3 Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan and No. 11 Corentin Moutet of France additionally superior. For the ladies, No. 15 Harriet Dart of Nice Britain defeated No. 5 Elina Avanesyan of Armenia 6-4, 6-1. No. 3 Lulu Solar of Australia, No. 10 Varvara Gracheva and No. 13 Wang Yafan of China additionally superior.
The boys’s and ladies’s essential draw each resume Tuesday. Twelve People — 10 males and two girls — shall be on courts all through the Lindner Household Tennis Heart.
No. 12 seed Ben Shelton of Atlanta will tackle Reilly Opelka of St. Joseph, Michigan, within the afternoon. No. 11 Taylor Fritz of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, will tackle Brandon Nakashima of San Diego within the night.
