Australian Open: Shnaider reaches third round

Russian Diana Shnaider, the No 12 seed, reached the third round of the Australian Open by beating Australian wildcard Ajla Tomljanovic 6-4, 7-5 at Melbourne Park on Wednesday.

Shnaider, ranked No 13, will play the winner of the match between lucky loser Harriet Dart and Croat Donna Vekic, the No 18 seed, next.

Ahead of her victory, the 20-year-old Russian won against Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto (7-6 (4), 6-4).

Tomljanovic, ranked No 114, edged out American Ashlyn Krueger (6-4, 4-6, 6-4) in the previous round of the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 season.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):

• Renata Zarazua vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Madison Keys vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Elena Rybakina vs. Iva Jovic
• Rebecca Sramkova vs. Iga Swiatek
• Emma Navarro vs. Xiyu Wang
• Emma Raducanu vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Eva Lys vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Yafan Wang vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Shuai Zhang
• Ons Jabeur vs. Camila Osorio
• Elina Svitolina vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Katie Boulter
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Erika Andreeva
• Destanee Aiava vs. Danielle Collins
• Danka Kovinic vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Paula Badosa vs. Talia Gibson
• Harriet Dart vs. Donna Vekic
• Jule Niemeier vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Coco Gauff vs. Jodie Burrage
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Leylah Fernandez (30) beat Cristina Bucsa: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Naomi Osaka beat Karolina Muchova (20): 1-6, 6-1, 6-3
• Belinda Bencic beat Suzan Lamens: 6-1, 7-6 (3)
• Jessica Pegula (7) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 6-2
• Olga Danilovic beat Liudmila Samsonova (25): 6-1, 6-2
• Mirra Andreeva (14) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8)
• Magdalena Frech (23) beat Anna Blinkova: 0-6, 6-0, 6-2
• Clara Tauson beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-2
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-3, 7-5
• Laura Siegemund beat Qinwen Zheng (5): 7-6 (3), 6-3