Australian Open: Giorgi books spot in second round
Camila Giorgi defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-0, 6-1 on Tuesday night and will play the winner of the match between Italian Martina Trevisan, the No 21 seed, and Slovak qualifier Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in the next round
Italian Camila Giorgi advanced to the second round of the Australian Open by beating Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-0, 6-1 at Melbourne Park on Tuesday night.
Pavlyuchenkova was making her return from a knee injury that limited her to just three events in 2022, the last coming on the clay in Rome, in May.
Giorgi, ranked No 70, will play the winner of the match between Italian Martina Trevisan, the No 21 seed, and Slovak qualifier Anna Karolina Schmiedlova next.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):
- Tamara Zidansek vs. Ons Jabeur
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Belinda Bencic
- Alison Riske-Amritraj vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Sloane Stephens vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Elizabeth Mandlik
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Claire Liu vs. Madison Brengle
- Mayar Sherif vs. Magda Linette
- Maryna Zanevska vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Shuai Zhang vs. Patricia Maria Tig
- Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Tatjana Maria
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Laura Siegemund
- Petra Martic vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Donna Vekic vs. Oksana Selekhmeteva
- Lauren Davis vs. Danka Kovinic
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Julia Grabher
- Xiyu Wang vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Katherine Sebov vs. Caroline Garcia
- Katie Volynets vs. Evgeniya Rodina
- Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Jaimee Fourlis
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Tereza Martincova: tuesday
- Kaia Kanepi vs. Kimberly Birrell: tuesday
- Martina Trevisan vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: tuesday
- Garbine Muguruza vs. Elise Mertens: tuesday
- Arianne Hartono vs. Shelby Rogers: tuesday
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Alize Cornet: tuesday
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (19) beat Ysaline Bonaventure: 6-2, 6-1
- Diane Parry vs. Taylor Townsend: tuesday
- Madison Keys (10) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
- Xinyu Wang beat Storm Hunter (WC): 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-4, 7-5
- Kaja Juvan beat Selena Janicijevic (Q): 7-5, 6-1
- Lin Zhu beat Rebecca Marino: 6-2, 6-4
- Jil Teichmann (32) beat Harriet Dart: 7-5, 6-1
- Elena Rybakina (22) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 7-5, 6-3
- Nadia Podoroska beat Leolia Jeanjean (LL): 6-0, 6-3
- Catherine McNally beat Laura Pigossi (LL): 7-5, 6-1
- Camila Osorio beat Panna Udvardy: 6-4, 6-1
- Kateryna Baindl beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 7-5, 6-7 (8), 6-1
- Barbora Krejcikova (20) beat Sara Bejlek (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Anna Bondar beat Ana Bogdan: 6-2, 2-6, 6-3
- Qinwen Zheng (29) beat Dalma Galfi: 6-0, 6-2
- Aliaksandra Sasnovich beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q): 7-5, 6-2
- Jelena Ostapenko (17) beat Dayana Yastremska: 6-4, 6-2
- Victoria Azarenka (24) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Anhelina Kalinina beat Coco Vandeweghe (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Karolina Muchova beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 6-2, 6-1
- Petra Kvitova (15) beat Alison Van Uytvanck: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Bernarda Pera beat Moyuka Uchijima (WC): 2-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Clara Burel (Q) beat Talia Gibson (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Maria Sakkari (6) beat Yue Yuan: 6-1, 6-4
- Diana Shnaider (Q) beat Kristina Kucova: 7-6 (6), 7-5
- Marta Kostyuk beat Amanda Anisimova (28): 6-3, 6-4
- Olivia Gadecki (WC) beat Polina Kudermetova (Q): 7-5, 6-1
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-0, 6-1
- Coco Gauff (7) beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-1, 6-4
- Emma Raducanu beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-3, 6-2
- Danielle Collins (13) beat Anna Kalinskaya: 7-5, 5-7, 6-4
- Bianca Andreescu beat Marie Bouzkova (25): 6-2, 6-4
- Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Eva Lys (Q): 2-6, 6-0, 6-2