Among those top seeds playing her first match was freshly-crowned world #1 Karolina Pliskova who won her first match as leader of the rankings against Pavluychenkova in straight sets.
Pavlyuchenkova wasn’t the only Russian with a bad experience in Toronto on Wednesday as two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova lost to quickly rising American CiCi Bellis, the California native scored her second win against a double Grand Slam champion wihtin one week, having beaten Petra Kvitova in Stanford.
Speaking of Kvitova, Wednesday wasn’t a particularly sucessful day for the Czech either as Kvitova lost her second round match against American Sloane Stephens in three sets.