Magda Linette defeats Anett Kontaveit to move into third round
Magda Linette edged out Anett Kontaveit 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday night. She’ll play Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 19 seed, in the next round
Magda Linette 2023 Australian Open || AI / Reuters / Panoramic
Pole Magda Linette advanced to the third round of the Australian Open by edging out Estonian Anett Kontaveit, the No 16 seed, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at Melbourne Park on Thursday night.
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Linette, ranked No 45, will face Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, the No 19 seed, next.
In the previous round, the Pole won against Egyptian Mayar Sherif (7-5, 6-1).
Kontaveit, ranked No 19, beat Austrian Julia Grabher (6-2, 6-3) in the previous round.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Ons Jabeur
- Claire Liu vs. Belinda Bencic
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
- Shuai Zhang vs. Petra Martic
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Kimberly Birrell vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Caroline Garcia
- Donna Vekic vs. Liudmila Samsonova: thursday
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Camila Giorgi: thursday
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Laura Siegemund: thursday
- Elise Mertens (26) beat Lauren Davis: 6-4, 6-3
- Aryna Sabalenka (5) beat Shelby Rogers: 6-3, 6-1
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Taylor Townsend (WC): 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Katie Volynets (Q) beat Veronika Kudermetova (9): 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
- Victoria Azarenka (24) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-1, 6-0
- Danielle Collins (13) beat Karolina Muchova: 6-7 (1), 6-2, 7-6 (6)
- Bernarda Pera beat Qinwen Zheng (29): 6-4, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- 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 (3) 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
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