2LT National News

Cincinnati – Top seed Ashleigh Barty stayed alive at the Cincinnati WTA tournament on Thursday with a 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 defeat of Anett Kontaveit of Estonia.

The win, which put her into the quarter-finals, kept her in the chase to return to the WTA top ranking.

Kontaveit was broken at 5-4 in the final set when she was serving for the match.

Results on Thursday in the WTA/ATP Cincinnati Masters (x-denotes seeding):

Men

3rd round

Richard Gasquet (FRA) bt Diego Schwartzman (ARG) 7-6 (8/6), 6-3

Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) bt Alex De Minaur (AUS) 7-5, 6-4