Australian Open: Kasatkina cruises past Wang to move through to third round
Daria Kasatkina won against Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-0 on Thursday night. She’ll play Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 24 seed, in the next round
Daria Kasatkina at the 2024 Australian Open (Virginie Bouyer/Panoramic)
Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 9 seed, won against Chinese Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-0 to reach the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.
Kasatkina, ranked No 10, will play Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 24 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the Russian beat Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova (6-1, 6-3).
Wang, ranked No 64, edged out Hungarian Anna Bondar (3-6, 6-3, 6-4) in the previous round of the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 season.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):
- Renata Zarazua vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Madison Keys vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Katie Boulter
- Destanee Aiava vs. Danielle Collins
- Elina Svitolina vs. Caroline Dolehide: thursday
- Jaqueline Cristian beat Lucia Bronzetti: 7-5, 7-5
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (15) beat Erika Andreeva: 6-2, 6-3
- Eva Lys (LL) beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
- Elena Rybakina (6) beat Iva Jovic (WC): 6-0, 6-3
- Yulia Putintseva beat Shuai Zhang (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-0, 6-2
- Emma Navarro (8) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Emma Raducanu beat Amanda Anisimova: 6-3, 7-5
- Ons Jabeur beat Camila Osorio: 7-5, 6-3
- Dayana Yastremska (32) beat Danka Kovinic: 6-0, 6-1
- Paula Badosa (11) beat Talia Gibson (WC): 6-1, 6-0
- Donna Vekic (18) beat Harriet Dart (LL): 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
- Marta Kostyuk (17) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-3, 6-0
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Jodie Burrage: 6-3, 7-5
- Diana Shnaider (12) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 6-4, 7-5
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27) beat Anastasia Potapova: 7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-2
- Leylah Fernandez (30) beat Cristina Bucsa: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Naomi Osaka beat Karolina Muchova (20): 1-6, 6-1, 6-3
- Belinda Bencic beat Suzan Lamens: 6-1, 7-6 (3)
- Jessica Pegula (7) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 6-2
- Olga Danilovic beat Liudmila Samsonova (25): 6-1, 6-2
- Mirra Andreeva (14) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8)
- Magdalena Frech (23) beat Anna Blinkova: 0-6, 6-0, 6-2
- Clara Tauson beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-2
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-3, 7-5
- Laura Siegemund beat Qinwen Zheng (5): 7-6 (3), 6-3
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