Australian Open: Third seed Pegula first to reach second round
The American will face the winner of the match between Czech qualifier Brenda Fruhvirtova and Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the next round
American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, became the first player to reach the second round of the Australian Open by beating Romanian Jaqueline Cristian 6-0, 6-1 at Melbourne Park on Monday.
Pegula, ranked No 3, needed only 59 minutes for the win and improved to 5-1 for the year, having won four of her five matches at the United Cup earlier this month.
The American, who reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open the last two years in a row, will face the winner of the match between Czech qualifier Brenda Fruhvirtova and Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich next.
Australian Open (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):
- 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
- Panna Udvardy vs. Camila Osorio
- Lin Zhu vs. Rebecca Marino
- Sofia Kenin vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Sara Bejlek
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Dalma Galfi
- Anna Bondar vs. Ana Bogdan
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Alison Van Uytvanck vs. Petra Kvitova
- Coco Vandeweghe vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Brenda Fruhvirtova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Bernarda Pera vs. Moyuka Uchijima
- Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Kateryna Baindl
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Karolina Muchova
- Yue Yuan vs. Maria Sakkari
- Talia Gibson vs. Clara Burel
- Kristina Kucova vs. Diana Shnaider
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Polina Kudermetova vs. Olivia Gadecki
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Coco Gauff
- Emma Raducanu vs. Tamara Korpatsch
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Danielle Collins
- Bianca Andreescu vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Eva Lys