Australian Open: Kvitova wins, to meet Kalinina in second round

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