WTA roundup: Magda Linette throttles top-seeded Daria Kasatkina
Sixth-seeded Magda Linette of Poland needed barely an hour to rout top-seeded Daria Kasatkina of Russia 6-1, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of Tennis in the Land on Thursday in Cleveland.
Linette, 26, avenged a three-set loss to Kasatkina in San Jose three weeks earlier by dominating her opponent in every facet. Linette, ranked 51st in the world, had six aces to the 27th-ranked Kasatkina's one and won 62 percent of all points