Australian Open: Kvitova wins, to meet Kalinina in second round
Petra Kvitova defeated Alison Van Uytvanck 7-6 (3), 6-2 in the first round on Monday
Petra Kvitova at the 2022 US Open (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Czech Petra Kvitova, the No 15 seed, continued her hot start to 2023 with a straight sets win over Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck in the first round of the Australian Open.
The former world No 2 and two-time Wimbledon champion won 7-6 (3), 6-2 in one hour and 33 minutes to reach at Melbourne Park on Monday.
Kvitova, who improved to 5-1 for the year with the win, will play Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina in the second round.
Kalinina scored a 6-3, 6-1 win over American qualifier Coco Vandeweghe, a former semi-finalist here.
Australian Open (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24,297,942, most recent results first):
- Karolina Muchova beat Lesia Tsurenko (Q): 6-2, 6-1
- 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
- Tamara Zidansek vs. Ons Jabeur
- Viktoriya Tomova vs. Belinda Bencic
- Alison Riske-Amritraj vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Sloane Stephens vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Elizabeth Mandlik
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Claire Liu vs. Madison Brengle
- Mayar Sherif vs. Magda Linette
- Maryna Zanevska vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Shuai Zhang vs. Patricia Maria Tig
- Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Tatjana Maria
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Lucia Bronzetti vs. Laura Siegemund
- Petra Martic vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Yulia Putintseva
- Donna Vekic vs. Oksana Selekhmeteva
- Lauren Davis vs. Danka Kovinic
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Julia Grabher
- Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Jaimee Fourlis
- Katherine Sebov vs. Caroline Garcia
- Katie Volynets vs. Evgeniya Rodina
- Xiyu Wang vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Kaia Kanepi vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Camila Giorgi
- Martina Trevisan vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
- Garbine Muguruza vs. Elise Mertens
- Arianne Hartono vs. Shelby Rogers
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Tereza Martincova
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Alize Cornet
- Ysaline Bonaventure vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Diane Parry vs. Taylor Townsend
- Madison Keys vs. Anna Blinkova
- Iga Swiatek vs. Jule Niemeier
- Leolia Jeanjean vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Xinyu Wang vs. Storm Hunter
- Jil Teichmann vs. Harriet Dart
- Kaja Juvan vs. Selena Janicijevic
- Elena Rybakina vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Laura Pigossi vs. Catherine McNally
- Lin Zhu vs. Rebecca Marino
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Sara Bejlek
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Dalma Galfi
- Anna Bondar vs. Ana Bogdan
- Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Kateryna Baindl
- Panna Udvardy vs. Camila Osorio
- Brenda Fruhvirtova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Sofia Kenin vs. Victoria Azarenka
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