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Seven of the eight seeds survived the first round and live to play on, as the Astana Open in Nur-Sultan continues.

As well, Canadian Bianca Andreescu made her first appearance since the US Open, as the No. 8 seed in Chicago. She met Shelby Rogers. And the player who is (all things considered) having the better season won.
That wasn’t Andreescu.

Andreescu, No. 1 Elina Svitolina and No. 4 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – all with first-round byes – were up against it with tough opponents in their openers. Only Svitolina lived to play another day.

ATP Tour – Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021 final results

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Chicago Fall Tennis Classic
Location: Chicago, Ill.
Category: WTA 500
Dates: Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, 2021
Prize money: $565,530
Draws: S48 – D28

Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021
Final results

Singles, second round

Shelby Rogers (USA) def [8] Bianca Andreescu (CAN) 64 75

Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) def [4] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 63 62
[Q] Mai Hontama (JPN) def [11] Anett Kontaveit (EST) WALKOVER

[1] Elina Svitolina (UKR) def Amanda Anisimova (USA) 64 63
[3] Belinda Bencic (SUI) def [Q] Maddison Inglis (AUS) 57 61 60
[5] Elena Rybakina (KAZ) def Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 64 64
[9] Jessica Pegula (USA) def. Andrea Petkovic (GER) 62 75
[12] Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) def. [LL] Harriet Dart (GBR) 63 64
[13] Tamara Zidansek (SLO) def Tereza Martincova (CZE) 62 75
[14] Victoria Azarenka (BLR) def. [WC] Hailey Baptiste (USA) 62 46 63
[16] Jil Teichmann (SUI) def Magda Linette (POL) 62 64

Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) def. [Q] Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) 75 62

Doubles, second round

[1] Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) / Elise Mertens (BEL) def. Viktorija Golubic / Jil Teichmann (SUI) 64 36 [10-6]
[3] Alexa Guarachi (CHI) / Desirae Krawczyk (USA) def. Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) / Marta Kostyuk (UKR) 36 75 [10-6]
[4] Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) / Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) def. Magda Linette / Alicja Rosolska (POL) 64 64
[6] Darija Jurak (CRO) / Andreja Klepac (SLO) def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) / Tamara Zidansek (SLO) 36 64 [10-7]

Doubles, first round

Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) / Raluca Olaru (ROU) def. Erin Routliffe (NZL) / Kaitlyn Christian (USA) 64 75

Makoto Ninomiya (JPN) / Sabrina Santamaria (USA) def. Ingrid Neel (USA) / Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 63 64
[WC] Caroline Dolehide / Coco Vandeweghe (USA) def Sania Mirza (IND) / Zhang Shuai (CHN) 61 57 [10-6]

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Astana Open
Location: Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Category: WTA 250
Dates: Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, 2021
Prize money: $235,238
Draws: S32 – D16

Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021
Final results

Singles, second round

[WC] Anastasia Potapova (RUS) def [3] Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 16 64 63
Anastasia Gasanova (RUS) def [5] Ana Konjuh (CRO) 26 76 (4) 62
Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) def [8] Clara Burel (FRA) 67 (3) 61 62

[1] Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) def [SR] Vera Lapko (BLR) 64 64
[2] Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL) vs Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER) 64 36 64
[6] Rebecca Peterson (SWE) def Zarina Diyas (KAZ) 62 62
[7] Varvara Gracheva (RUS) def [Q] Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 62 64

[Q] Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) def Kaja Juvan (SLO) 64 63

Doubles, first round

Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS) / Yana Sizikova (RUS) def [1] Greet Minnen (BEL) / Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL) 62 01 retd
Angelina Gabueva (RUS) / Anastasia Zakharova (RUS) def [4] Varvara Gracheva (RUS) / Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) 36 64 [10-6]

[3] Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER) / Monica Niculescu (ROU) def [WC] Sofiya Chursina (KAZ) / Yekaterina Dmitrichenko (KAZ) 62 75