Australian Open: Gracheva reaches second round, dismantling seed No8 Kasatkina !
Varvara Gracheva won against Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-1 on Wednesday and will play Italian qualifier Lucrezia Stefanini in the next round
Vervara Gracheva | © Panoramic
That’s the main surprise in the 2023 Australian Open draw so far. Varvara Gracheva reached the second round of the Australian Open by beating No 8 seed Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-1 at Melbourne Park on Wednesday. Gracheva, ranked No 97, will face Italian qualifier Lucrezia Stefanini next.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz: wednesday
- Shuai Zhang vs. Patricia Maria Tig: wednesday
- Claire Liu beat Madison Brengle: 6-3, 6-4
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Alison Riske-Amritraj: 5-7, 6-1, 6-4
- Anastasia Potapova beat Sloane Stephens: 7-6 (2), 6-4
- Magda Linette beat Mayar Sherif: 7-5, 6-1
- Laura Siegemund beat Lucia Bronzetti: 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Irina-Camelia Begu (27) beat Elizabeth Mandlik (LL): 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2
- Donna Vekic beat Oksana Selekhmeteva (Q): 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (7)
- Lucrezia Stefanini beat Tatjana Maria: 3-6, 7-5, 6-4
- Lauren Davis beat Danka Kovinic: 1-6, 7-5, 6-1
- Belinda Bencic (12) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-1, 6-2
- Ons Jabeur (2) beat Tamara Zidansek: 7-6 (8), 4-6, 6-1
- Yulia Putintseva beat Sorana Cirstea: 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Liudmila Samsonova (18) beat Jasmine Paolini: 6-2, 6-4
- Petra Martic beat Viktorija Golubic: 6-3, 6-4
- Veronika Kudermetova (9) beat Maryna Zanevska: 6-2, 7-6 (4)
- Karolina Pliskova (30) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-1, 6-3
- Anett Kontaveit (16) beat Julia Grabher: 6-2, 6-3
- Caroline Garcia (4) beat Katherine Sebov (Q): 6-3, 6-0
- Katie Volynets (Q) beat Evgeniya Rodina: 6-3, 6-2
- Linda Fruhvirtova beat Jaimee Fourlis (WC): 6-0, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (5) beat Tereza Martincova: 6-1, 6-4
- Kimberly Birrell (WC) beat Kaia Kanepi (31): 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1
- Camila Giorgi beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-0, 6-1
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Q) beat Martina Trevisan (21): 6-3, 6-2
- Elise Mertens (26) beat Garbine Muguruza: 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-1
- Shelby Rogers beat Arianne Hartono (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Leylah Fernandez beat Alize Cornet: 7-5, 6-2
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (19) beat Ysaline Bonaventure: 6-2, 6-1
- Taylor Townsend (WC) beat Diane Parry (WC): 6-1, 6-1
- 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
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