Australian Open: Blinkova moves into second round

Russian Anna Blinkova moved into the second round of the Australian Open by winning against Spaniard Cristina Bucsa 6-2, 6-4 at Melbourne Park on Tuesday.

Blinkova, ranked No 57, will play the winner of the match between Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, and Karolina Pliskova next.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):

• Rebecca Marino vs. Jessica Pegula
• Elena Rybakina vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Petra Martic vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Emma Raducanu vs. Shelby Rogers
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Kimberly Birrell: tuesday
• Katie Boulter vs. Yue Yuan: tuesday
• Yafan Wang vs. Sorana Cirstea: tuesday
• Clara Burel beat Aleksandra Krunic: 6-4, 6-1
• Oceane Dodin beat Lin Zhu (29): 6-4, 6-3
• Clara Tauson beat Greet Minnen: 7-5, 7-5
• Victoria Azarenka (18) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
• Emma Navarro (27) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-1, 6-7 (5), 7-5
• Danielle Collins beat Angelique Kerber: 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Sofia Kenin: 7-6 (2), 6-2
• Martina Trevisan beat Renata Zarazua (Q): 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
• Daria Kasatkina (14) beat Peyton Stearns: 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
• Sloane Stephens beat Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-3, 6-1
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Lulu Sun (Q): 6-1, 7-5
• Caroline Garcia (16) beat Naomi Osaka: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Anna Kalinskaya beat Katie Volynets (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
• Mirra Andreeva beat Bernarda Pera: 7-5, 6-2
• Arantxa Rus beat Anhelina Kalinina (24): 6-1, 6-0
• Paula Badosa beat Taylor Townsend: 6-1, 6-3
• Beatriz Haddad Maia (10) beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
• Ons Jabeur (6) beat Yulia Starodubtseva (Q): 6-3, 6-1
• Viktorija Golubic beat Veronika Kudermetova (15): 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-1
• Anastasia Zakharova (Q) beat Yulia Putintseva: 2-6, 6-0, 6-3
• Katerina Siniakova beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-2, 7-5
• Elise Mertens (25) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-2, 2-0 ret.
• Magdalena Frech beat Daria Saville (WC): 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Donna Vekic (21): 6-4, 6-4
• Jasmine Paolini (26) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-3, 6-4
• Marta Kostyuk beat Claire Liu: 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
• Rebeka Masarova beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-3, 6-4
• Mccartney Kessler (WC) beat Fiona Ferro (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Tatjana Maria beat Camila Osorio: 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-4
• Laura Siegemund beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (17): 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (9)
• Kaja Juvan beat Anastasia Potapova (23): 6-1, 6-4
• Coco Gauff (4) beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-3, 6-0
• Dayana Yastremska (Q) beat Marketa Vondrousova (7): 6-1, 6-2
• Nadia Podoroska beat Tamara Zidansek: 6-1, 6-0
• Storm Hunter (Q) beat Sara Errani: 6-4, 6-3
• Varvara Gracheva beat Yanina Wickmayer: 6-3, 6-4
• Viktoriya Tomova beat Kayla Day: 6-4, 6-2
• Elina Svitolina (19) beat Taylah Preston (WC): 6-2, 6-2
• Linda Noskova beat Marie Bouzkova (31): 6-1, 7-5
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Ella Seidel (Q): 6-0, 6-1
• Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Magda Linette (20): 6-2, 2-0 ret.
• Caroline Dolehide beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-2, 6-4
• Alina Korneeva (Q) beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
• Amanda Anisimova beat Liudmila Samsonova (13): 6-3, 6-4
• Diane Parry beat Xinyu Wang (30): 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
• Maria Sakkari (8) beat Nao Hibino: 6-4, 6-1
• Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q) beat Ana Bogdan: 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Maria Timofeeva (Q) beat Alize Cornet (WC): 6-2, 6-4
• Alycia Parks beat Daria Snigur (Q): 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
• Tamara Korpatsch beat Jodie Burrage: 2-6, 6-3, 6-0
• Elina Avanesyan beat Zhuoxuan Bai: 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
• Barbora Krejcikova (9) beat Mai Hontama (WC): 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
• Lesia Tsurenko (28) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
• Kamilla Rakhimova beat Emina Bektas: 6-4, 6-4
• Leylah Fernandez (32) beat Sara Bejlek (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2