MINSK, 21 August (BelTA) – Belarus' world number 25 Aryna Sabalenka beat Australia's world number 64 Samantha Stosur 6-3, 6-2 in the 2018 Connecticut Open first round, BelTA informs.
The Belarusian will play Australia's Daria Gavrilova, the world number 24, in the second round.
Belarus' world number 37 Aliaksandra Sasnovich defeated France's world number 54 Kristina Mladenovic in the round of Last 32 and will next face France's world number 6 Caroline Garcia for the berth in the quarterfinal.
In the doubles event Belarus' Lidziya Marozava and Shuko Aoyama of Japan lost to the Czech tandem of Barbora Strycova and Andrea Hlavackova 2-6, 1-6.