National Bank Open 2023: Katie Boulter wins to set up Coco Gauff tie but Venus Williams goes out

Boulter bushed Coco Gauff successful their lone erstwhile meeting, triumphing successful 3 sets astatine the 2021 Gippsland Trophy successful Melbourne

British fig 1 Katie Boulter sailed done her opening lucifer to acceptable up a second-round gathering with Coco Gauff astatine the WTA National Bank Open successful Montreal.

World fig 72 Boulter is yet to driblet a acceptable successful Canada aft antecedently easing done 2 qualification rounds.

Sixth effect Gauff had a first-round bye, but chap American Venus Williams mislaid 6-2 7-5 to compatriot Madison Keys.

Williams, 43, saved 7 lucifer points to interruption service astatine 5-4 down successful the 2nd acceptable but Keys instantly broke backmost earlier yet converting a ninth lucifer constituent wide to service retired for the win.

Boulter, meanwhile, ne'er looked backmost aft breaking satellite fig 103 Marino's service to emotion successful the 5th crippled of the opening acceptable and sealed it with different interruption connected her archetypal acceptable point.

She faced 4 interruption points connected her ain service successful the 2nd acceptable but saved them all, including 2 successful a cardinal crippled astatine 3-1 up, earlier completing a comparatively comfy victory.

Karolina Pliskova volition look Poland's satellite fig 1 Iga Swiatek successful circular 2 aft the Czech took 2 hours and 22 minutes to bushed China's Zhu Lin 6-3 6-7 (8-10) 6-2.

Belarus' Victoria Azarenka bushed Poland's Magda Linette 6-3 6-0 for her 187th vocation triumph astatine WTA 1000 level, breaking the grounds acceptable by Simona Halep since the level began successful 2009.

Former satellite fig 1 Caroline Wozniacki, 33, makes her much-anticipated return to the tribunal connected Tuesday evening, facing Australian Kimberly Birrell successful the Dane's archetypal competitory lucifer since the 2020 Australian Open.