Russian tennis player Diana Shnaider defeated Austria's Anastasia Potapova 6:1, 6:2 in the second round of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tournament in Washington. Shnaider, seeded fourth, will face Russian Liudmila Samsonova in the quarterfinals. Shnaider, 22, is ranked 18th with 5 WTA singles and 3 doubles titles. The tournament in Washington belongs to the WTA 500 category and is held on hard courts. Among Russian players, the tournament was won by Nadia Petrova (2011), Svetlana Kuznetsova (2014, 2018), Ekaterina Makarova (2017) and Samsonova (2022).