Australian Open: Excellent Avanesyan upsets Sakkari to reach third round
Elina Avanesyan won against Maria Sakkari 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday afternoon. She’ll play Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk in the next round
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Russian Elina Avanesyan beat Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 8 seed, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.
Avanesyan, ranked No 74, will play Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk next.
The 21-year-old Russian won against Chinese Zhuoxuan Bai (4-6, 7-5, 6-2) in the previous round.
In the previous round, Sakkari, ranked No 8, defeated Japanese Nao Hibino (6-4, 6-1).
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Clara Tauson vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Blinkova
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Elina Svitolina vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Emma Raducanu vs. Yafan Wang
- Emma Navarro vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Clara Burel vs. Jessica Pegula
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Katie Boulter
- Sloane Stephens vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Tatjana Maria vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Oceane Dodin vs. Martina Trevisan
- Iga Swiatek vs. Danielle Collins
- Arantxa Rus vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Mccartney Kessler vs. Linda Noskova
- 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
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