Ekaterina Alexandrova rallies to stop American Taylor Townsend

Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 19 seed, won against American wildcard Taylor Townsend 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 to move into the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Thursday night.

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Alexandrova, ranked No 18, will face the winner of the match between Estonian Anett Kontaveit, the No 16 seed, and Pole Magda Linette next.

The Russian beat Belgian Ysaline Bonaventure (6-2, 6-1) in the previous round.

In the previous round, Townsend, ranked No 135, won against French wildcard Diane Parry (6-1, 6-1).

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):

• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Ons Jabeur
• Claire Liu vs. Belinda Bencic
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Donna Vekic vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Shuai Zhang vs. Petra Martic
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Caroline Garcia
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Laura Siegemund
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Camila Giorgi
• Anett Kontaveit vs. Magda Linette
• Lauren Davis vs. Elise Mertens
• Aryna Sabalenka (5) beat Shelby Rogers: 6-3, 6-1
• Katie Volynets vs. Veronika Kudermetova: thursday
• Victoria Azarenka (24) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-1, 6-0
• Danielle Collins (13) beat Karolina Muchova: 6-7 (1), 6-2, 7-6 (6)
• Bernarda Pera beat Qinwen Zheng (29): 6-4, 6-4
• Marta Kostyuk beat Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-2, 6-1
• Elena Rybakina (22) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-2, 6-1
• Coco Gauff (7) beat Emma Raducanu: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Kateryna Baindl beat Catherine McNally: 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Madison Keys (10) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-2
• Barbora Krejcikova (20) beat Clara Burel (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Bianca Andreescu: 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4
• Lin Zhu beat Jil Teichmann (32): 6-2, 6-2
• Jelena Ostapenko (17) beat Anna Bondar: 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-0
• Anhelina Kalinina beat Petra Kvitova (15): 7-5, 6-4
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Maria Sakkari (6) beat Diana Shnaider (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Camila Osorio: 6-2, 6-3