Bouchard of Canada dropped the first round match of the Aigle Open against Bencic of Switzerland. CBC Sports

Fifth seed Daria Kasatkina on Tuesday defeated 2021 US Open champion Emma Radukanu 7-5, 6-4 to enter the second round of the Aigle Open.

Kasatkina is playing her first match since losing in the first round of the US Open and will next face Ekaterina Alexandrova in an all-Russian second round.

Switzerland’s sixth-seeded Belinda Bencic beat former Canadian top five Eugenie Bouchard 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-4, while Belarus’s Aliaksandra Sasnovich defeated eighth seed Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-2. defeated by 6. -2.

American qualifiers Alicia Parks and Katherine McNeely both advanced. Parcs defeated Czech Karolina Pliskova 6-0, 7-6(3) and McNally defeated Anna Blinkova 6-1, 6-2 at the indoor hardcourt event in the Czech eastern city of Ostrava.

look | Bencic needs to come back to beat Bouchard of Canada

Eugenie Bouchard intimidates Belinda Bencic at Ostrava Open

6 seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland registered a 6-7 (7), 6-1, 6-4 win over Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Ky., in the first round of the Ostrava Open.

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