Australian Open: Juvan upsets 23rd-seeded Potapova

Slovenian Kaja Juvan continued the trend of seeds exiting early on Day 2 of the Austrlian Open as she beat Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 23 seed, 6-1, 6-4 to move into the second round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday afternoon.

Potapova has now lost in the first round at the Australian Open in three of her last five appearances. She joins No 7 seed Marketa Vondrousova and No 31 seed Marie Bouzkova as seeded losers on the women’s side on Day 2.

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Juvan, ranked No 109, will face the winner of the match between Kazakh Yulia Putintseva and Russian qualifier Anastasia Zakharova 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
• Yafan Wang vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Aleksandra Krunic vs. Clara Burel
• Katie Boulter vs. Yue Yuan
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Anna Blinkova
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Camila Giorgi vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Lin Zhu vs. Oceane Dodin
• Emma Navarro vs. Xiyu Wang
• Greet Minnen vs. Clara Tauson
• Danielle Collins vs. Angelique Kerber
• Iga Swiatek vs. Sofia Kenin
• Renata Zarazua vs. Martina Trevisan
• Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Sloane Stephens vs. Olivia Gadecki
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Lulu Sun
• Caroline Garcia vs. Naomi Osaka
• Ons Jabeur vs. Yulia Starodubtseva
• Taylor Townsend vs. Paula Badosa
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Bernarda Pera
• Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katie Volynets
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Arantxa Rus
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Donna Vekic
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Anastasia Zakharova
• Magdalena Frech vs. Daria Saville
• Mayar Sherif vs. Elise Mertens
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Claire Liu
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Rebeka Masarova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Diana Shnaider vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Fiona Ferro vs. Mccartney Kessler
• Tatjana Maria vs. Camila Osorio
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Laura Siegemund: monday
• 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