Australian Open: Kasatkina moves into last 16

Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 9 seed, advanced to the last 16 of the Australian Open by beating Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 24 seed, 7-5, 6-1 at Melbourne Park on Saturday.

It’s Kasatkina’s first time qualifying for the last 16 at Melbourne Park.

The Russian needed only an hour, 21 minutes to claim the win. She did it by hitting 15 winners and breaking Putintseva six times.

Kasatkina, ranked No 10, will play American Emma Navarro, the No 8 seed, next.

Ahead of her victory, the Russian won against Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova (6-1, 6-3) and Chinese Yafan Wang (6-2, 6-0).

Putintseva, ranked No 23, defeated Armenian Elina Avanesyan (4-6, 7-5, 6-2) and Chinese wildcard Shuai Zhang (6-2, 6-1) earlier in the tournament.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other third-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):

• Madison Keys vs. Danielle Collins
• Elina Svitolina vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Elena Rybakina vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Eva Lys vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Iga Swiatek (2) beat Emma Raducanu: 6-1, 6-0
• Emma Navarro beat Ons Jabeur: 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
• Olga Danilovic beat Jessica Pegula (7): 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Leylah Fernandez (30): 6-4, 6-2
• Belinda Bencic beat Naomi Osaka: 7-6 (3) ret.
• Mirra Andreeva (14) beat Magdalena Frech (23): 6-2, 1-6, 6-2
• Paula Badosa (11) beat Marta Kostyuk (17): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Clara Tauson: 7-6 (5), 6-4
• Donna Vekic (18) beat Diana Shnaider (12): 7-6 (4), 6-7 (3), 7-5
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-1, 6-2

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