Australian Open: Blinkova moves into second round
Anna Blinkova beat Cristina Bucsa 6-2, 6-4 on Tuesday. She’ll face the winner of the match between Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 3 seed, and Karolina Pliskova in the next round
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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
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