Australian Open: Pera makes third round
Bernarda Pera won against Qinwen Zheng 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday. She’ll play American Coco Gauff, the No 7 seed, in the next round
Bernarda Pera (Photosport/Panoramic)
American Bernarda Pera won against Chinese Qinwen Zheng, the No 29 seed, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday.
Pera, ranked No 41, will face American Coco Gauff, the No 7 seed, next.
The American beat Japanese wildcard Moyuka Uchijima (2-6, 6-3, 6-1) in the previous round.
In the previous round, Zheng, ranked No 28, won against Hungarian Dalma Galfi (6-0, 6-2).
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
- Kimberly Birrell vs. Linda Fruhvirtova
- Donna Vekic vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Shuai Zhang vs. Petra Martic
- 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: wednesday
- Karolina Muchova vs. Danielle Collins: wednesday
- Marta Kostyuk beat Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Elena Rybakina (22) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-2, 6-1
- Coco Gauff 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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