Australian Open: Navarro fights back to beat Cocciaretto and reach third round
Emma Navarro beat Cocciaretto 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. She’ll face the winner of the match between Varvara Gracheva and Dayana Yastremska in the next round
American Emma Navarro, the No 27 seed, beat Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 to move into the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.
Navarro, ranked No 26, will play the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva and Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska next.
In the previous round, the 22-year-old American edged out Chinese Xiyu Wang (6-1, 6-7 (5), 7-5).
Cocciaretto, ranked No 66, won against Swiss qualifier Lulu Sun (6-1, 7-5) in the previous round.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Clara Tauson vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Blinkova: thursday
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Viktorija Golubic: thursday
- Emma Raducanu vs. Yafan Wang: thursday
- Elina Svitolina (19) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-1, 6-3
- Clara Burel beat Jessica Pegula (5): 6-4, 6-2
- Qinwen Zheng (12) beat Katie Boulter: 6-3, 6-3
- Sloane Stephens beat Daria Kasatkina (14): 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Jasmine Paolini (26) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-3
- Oceane Dodin beat Martina Trevisan: 6-4, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Danielle Collins: 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Arantxa Rus: 6-1, 7-5
- Linda Noskova beat Mccartney Kessler (WC): 6-3, 1-6, 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan beat Maria Sakkari (8): 6-4, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Elise Mertens (25): 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (6)
- Lesia Tsurenko (28) beat Rebeka Masarova: 6-3, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Paula Badosa beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-2, 6-3
- Magdalena Frech beat Caroline Garcia (16): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Anastasia Zakharova (Q) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-1, 6-1
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (10) beat Alina Korneeva (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Amanda Anisimova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-2, 6-3
- Diane Parry beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 7-5, 6-2
- Coco Gauff (4) beat Caroline Dolehide: 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (9) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-2, 6-2
- Alycia Parks beat Leylah Fernandez (32): 7-5, 6-4
- Storm Hunter (Q) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Mirra Andreeva beat Ons Jabeur (6): 6-0, 6-2
- Maria Timofeeva (Q) beat Caroline Wozniacki (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1