Emma won 70% of her 1st serve points and 73% of her 2nd serve points. After the first game she just wasn't giving anything away, the ball kept coming back.
Presently 31st seed at the US Open as Kessler set to drop a lot of points this week.
Kessler needs 154 points: Faces McNally then Navarro.
Wang will overtake her with a 2nd round victory over Coco Gauff.
Sramkova (Linette then Pegula), Kalinskaya (Stearns then Anisimova) and V. Kudermetova (Bencic then Tauson) will need to reach the last 16.
Joint (Alexandria then Anisimova) and Bouzas Manerio (Townsend then Sabalenka) would need to reach the QF.
I think she's going to make it, but a favour from Vondousova tonight would be handy!
Just on Kessler, her WTA Cleveland 250 title points from last year come off on 25/08, too late to effect the US Open seedings which will be based on the 18/08 rankings.
And her WR 32 on 1475 points in the latest rankings update does allow for taking off her 100 points from last year's Landisville title.
So she remains ahead of Emma for possible US Open seeding.