Stephens, ranked No 38, will play No 6 seed Caroline Garcia next.
Cincinnati WTA 1000, other 64 results (Linder Tennis Family Center, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):
- Elina Svitolina vs. Caroline Wozniacki
- Magda Linette vs. Ann Li
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Peyton Stearns
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Jennifer Brady vs. Donna Vekic
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Madison Keys vs. Elise Mertens
- Xiyu Wang vs. Mayar Sherif
- Linda Noskova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Petra Kvitova vs. Anna Blinkova
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Belinda Bencic
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Danielle Collins vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
- Bernarda Pera vs. Martina Trevisan
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Petra Martic vs. Emma Navarro
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Lin Zhu vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Karolina Muchova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Venus Williams vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Celine Naef vs. Anastasia Potapova: monday
- Jasmine Paolini (Q) beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 6-1
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