Australian Open: Stephens takes out Kasatkina
Sloane Stephens battled past Daria Kasatkina 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday in Melbourne. She’ll face Russian Anna Kalinskaya in the next round.
Sloane Stephens reached the third round of the Australian Open by beating Russian Daria Kasatkina, the No 14 seed, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 at Melbourne Park on Thursday.
Stephens, ranked No 44, will face Russian Anna Kalinskaya next.
The American previously defeated Australian wild card Olivia Gadecki (6-3, 6-1). Kasatkina, ranked No 13, was coming off a victory over American Peyton Stearns (6-2, 3-6, 6-2).
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Clara Tauson vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Blinkova
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Elina Svitolina vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Emma Raducanu vs. Yafan Wang
- Emma Navarro vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Clara Burel beat Jessica Pegula (5): 6-4, 6-2
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Katie Boulter: thursday
- Jasmine Paolini (26) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-3
- Oceane Dodin beat Martina Trevisan: 6-4, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Danielle Collins: 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Arantxa Rus: 6-1, 7-5
- Linda Noskova beat Mccartney Kessler (WC): 6-3, 1-6, 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan beat Maria Sakkari (8): 6-4, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Elise Mertens (25): 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (6)
- Lesia Tsurenko (28) beat Rebeka Masarova: 6-3, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Paula Badosa beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-2, 6-3
- Magdalena Frech beat Caroline Garcia (16): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Anastasia Zakharova (Q) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-1, 6-1
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (10) beat Alina Korneeva (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Amanda Anisimova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-2, 6-3
- Diane Parry beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 7-5, 6-2
- Coco Gauff (4) beat Caroline Dolehide: 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (9) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-2, 6-2
- Alycia Parks beat Leylah Fernandez (32): 7-5, 6-4
- Storm Hunter (Q) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Mirra Andreeva beat Ons Jabeur (6): 6-0, 6-2
- Maria Timofeeva (Q) beat Caroline Wozniacki (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
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