The 33-year-old Kerber won on Monday (local time) at the tournament in Cincinnati with Maria Sakkari from Greece 6: 2, 6: 2. In the second round, she meets at the number four set Elina Svitolina from Ukraine, which won the Olympic Games in Tokyo Bronze.
For Kerber it was the first match on the tour since the semi-final-out in Wimbledon. The German number one had renounced her Olympic participation because of a thigh injury. Cincinnati's tournament is worth 1.8 million dollars and serves to prepare for the last Grand Slam of the Year, which begins in New York in two weeks.
Men: Murray uses Wild Card to the starting victory
Andy Murray also returned to the ATP tour after his third-rounded-out in Wimbledon a month ago. The three-time Grand Slam Champion managed to jump to the ATP Masters in Cincinnati in the second round, Murray defeated the French Richard Gasquet with 6: 4, 6: 4.
The 34-year-old, who has been struggling for years with injuries and already won twice in Cincinnati, received a wild card for the hard course tournament. While the world's world's first Novak Djokovic protects himself after his fourth place at Olympia for the US Open, Olympic champion Alexander Zverev (Hamburg) and Wimbledon-Finalist Stefanos TsitsiPas (Greece) at the Master's launch.
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