By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday August 23, 2020
The Western and Southern Open is underway in Cincinnati. Ahead of Day 2 let’s take a look back at some of the important numbers from Day 1.
100 Andy Murray took the court for his 100th Masters 1000 event and scored a three-set victory over Frances Tiafoe. The two-time champion has 214 career Masters 1000 wins.
20 Difference in age between Venus Williams an Dayana Yastremska.
It was the 20-year-old Yastremska that came away with the 5-7 6-2 7-5 win on Saturday to set up a second-round match with American Bernarda Pera.
15 The age of Richard Gasquet in 2002, when he became the youngest ATP player to win a Masters 1000 match at Monte-Carlo. Gasquet will be in action against American qualifier JJ Wolf on Sunday.
5 There are five players who have earned their maiden titles on tour this year. Two WTA and three ATP: Jennifer Brady, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Ugo Humbert, Casper Ruud and Thiago Seyboth Wild.
21 Age of World No 18 Marketa Vondrousova. The Czech is aiming for her first Cincinnati win today against qualifier Laura Siegemund.
1 Top seed and 2016 champion Karolina Pliskova will be the highest seed in action on Day 2. She faces Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova. Pliskova is 12-4 lifetime at Cincinnati. She has reached the quarter-finals in three of her last four appearances.
3 Three Russians – No.5 Daniil Medvedev, No.14 Andrey Rublev and No.15 Karen Khachanov – are in the ATP’s Top 15 for the first time and two of them (Rublev and Khachanov) are in action today.