Australian Open: Stephens takes out Kasatkina

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