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Venus Williams is back, after an impressive upset of rusty No. 16 seed Veronika Kudermetova in the first round. She got fine young up-and-comer Zheng Qinwen, who is half her age (reusable Tweet). And she couldn’t get over the line.

As for Iga Swiatek, she got a rematch against Danielle Collins and showed her who’s boss.

And Montreal champion Jessica Pegula got qualifier Martina Trevisan as she had to get right back to work. After a slow start, she, too, prevailed.

ATP Tour – Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023 final results

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Western & Southern Open
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Dates: Aug. 14 – 20, 2023
Prize money: $2,788,468
Draws: S56 – D32

Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023
Final results

Singles, second round

[Q] Linda Noskova (CZE) def [9] Petra Kvitova (CZE) 36 62 64

[1] Iga Swiatek (POL) def. [WC] Danielle Collins (USA) 61 60
[2] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def. [Q] Ann Li (USA) 75 26 64
[3] Jessica Pegula (USA) def. [Q] Martina Trevisan (ITA) 67 (2) 62 63
[4] Elena Rybakina (KAZ) def. Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 67 (6) 62 64
[7] Coco Gauff (USA) def Mayar Sherif (EGY) 62 62
[8] Maria Sakkari (GRE) def. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 26 63 75
[10] Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) def. Anastasia Potapova (RUS) 64 62
[14] Daria Kasatkina (RUS) def. [LL] Varvara Gracheva (FRA) 63 61

Marie Bouzkova (CZE) def Elise Mertens (BEL) 62 46 61
Karolina Muchova (CZE) def. Petra Martic (CRO) 63 36 63
[Q] Jasmine Paolini (ITA) def [Q] Cristina Bucsa (ESP) 61 63
Donna Vekic (CRO) def Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 36 63 64
Zheng Qinwen (CHN) def. [WC] Venus Williams (USA) 16 62 61

Doubles, second round

Miyu Kato (JPN) / Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) def Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Erin Routliffe (NZL) 76 (4) 46 [10-1]

[3] Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) / Ellen Perez (AUS) def. Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) / Xu Yifan (CHN) 63 64
[4] Desirae Krawczyk (USA) / Demi Schuurs (NED) def. [WC] Emma Navarro / Peyton Stearns (USA) 67 (4) 63 [10-4]
[7] Hao-Ching Chan (TPE) / Giuliana Olmos (MEX) def [WC] Jennifer Brady / Asia Muhammad (USA) 75 62

Alycia Parks / Taylor Townsend (USA) def Latisha Chan (TPE) / Yang Zhaoxuan (CHN) 64 63

Doubles, first round

[6] Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) / Wang Xinyu (CHN) def. Anna Blinkova (RUS) / Varvara Gracheva (FRA) 60 61

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) / Luisa Stefani (BRA) def. ~~Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) / Anastasia Potapova (RUS)~~ [ALT] Ekaterina Alexandrova (RUS) / Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 62 60