Australian Open: Kostyuk into third round, next match againt Pegula

Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk defeated Australian wildcard Olivia Gadecki 6-2, 6-1 to reach the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday.

Kostyuk, ranked No 61, will play American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, next. The 20-year-old Ukrainian validates her win against American Amanda Anisimova, the No 28 seed (6-3, 6-4).

In the previous round, Gadecki, ranked No 199, won against Russian qualifier Polina Kudermetova (7-5, 6-1).

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):

• Elena Rybakina (22) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-2, 6-1
• Coco Gauff (7) beat Emma Raducanu: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Kateryna Baindl beat Catherine McNally: 6-1, 7-6 (4)
• Madison Keys (10) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-2
• Barbora Krejcikova (20) beat Clara Burel (Q): 6-4, 6-1
• Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Bianca Andreescu: 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4
• Lin Zhu beat Jil Teichmann (32): 6-2, 6-2
• Jelena Ostapenko (17) beat Anna Bondar: 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-0
• Anhelina Kalinina beat Petra Kvitova (15): 7-5, 6-4
• Jessica Pegula beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
• Maria Sakkari (6) beat Diana Shnaider (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
• Iga Swiatek (1) beat Camila Osorio: 6-2, 6-3
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Ons Jabeur
• Claire Liu vs. Belinda Bencic
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
• Kimberly Birrell vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
• Donna Vekic vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Caroline Garcia
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Laura Siegemund
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Camila Giorgi
• Anett Kontaveit vs. Magda Linette
• Lauren Davis vs. Elise Mertens
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Shelby Rogers
• Taylor Townsend vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Katie Volynets vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Karolina Muchova vs. Danielle Collins: wednesday
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Bernarda Pera: wednesday