Australian Open: Tomljanovic battles past Martic to make second round on Australian Open return
Ajla Tomljanovic edged out Petra Martic 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4 on Tuesday. She’ll play Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 11 seed, in the next round
Ajla Tomljanovic, 2024
Australian Ajla Tomljanovic edged out Croat Petra Martic 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Australian Open in her first appearance in two years at her home major.
Tomljanovic, ranked No 271, will play Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 11 seed, next.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Jessica Pegula (5) beat Rebecca Marino (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Emma Raducanu beat Shelby Rogers: 6-3, 6-2
- Elena Rybakina (3) beat Karolina Pliskova: 7-6 (6), 6-4
- Qinwen Zheng (12) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Jelena Ostapenko beat Kimberly Birrell (WC): 7-6 (5), 6-1
- Katie Boulter beat Yue Yuan: 7-5, 7-6 (1)
- Yafan Wang beat Sorana Cirstea (22): 0-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Anna Blinkova beat Cristina Bucsa: 6-2, 6-4
- Clara Burel beat Aleksandra Krunic: 6-4, 6-1
- Oceane Dodin beat Lin Zhu (29): 6-4, 6-3
- Clara Tauson beat Greet Minnen: 7-5, 7-5
- Victoria Azarenka (18) beat Camila Giorgi: 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
- Emma Navarro (27) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-1, 6-7 (5), 7-5
- Danielle Collins beat Angelique Kerber: 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Sofia Kenin: 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Martina Trevisan beat Renata Zarazua (Q): 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
- Daria Kasatkina (14) beat Peyton Stearns: 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
- Sloane Stephens beat Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-3, 6-1
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto beat Lulu Sun (Q): 6-1, 7-5
- Caroline Garcia (16) beat Naomi Osaka: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Katie Volynets (Q): 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
- Mirra Andreeva beat Bernarda Pera: 7-5, 6-2
- Arantxa Rus beat Anhelina Kalinina (24): 6-1, 6-0
- Paula Badosa beat Taylor Townsend: 6-1, 6-3
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (10) beat Linda Fruhvirtova: 6-2, 3-6, 6-2
- Ons Jabeur (6) beat Yulia Starodubtseva (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Viktorija Golubic beat Veronika Kudermetova (15): 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-1
- Anastasia Zakharova (Q) beat Yulia Putintseva: 2-6, 6-0, 6-3
- Katerina Siniakova beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-2, 7-5
- Elise Mertens (25) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-2, 2-0 ret.
- Magdalena Frech beat Daria Saville (WC): 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Donna Vekic (21): 6-4, 6-4
- Jasmine Paolini (26) beat Diana Shnaider: 6-3, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Claire Liu: 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
- Rebeka Masarova beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-3, 6-4
- Mccartney Kessler (WC) beat Fiona Ferro (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Tatjana Maria beat Camila Osorio: 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-4
- Laura Siegemund beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (17): 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (9)
- Kaja Juvan beat Anastasia Potapova (23): 6-1, 6-4
- Coco Gauff (4) beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova: 6-3, 6-0
- Dayana Yastremska (Q) beat Marketa Vondrousova (7): 6-1, 6-2
- Nadia Podoroska beat Tamara Zidansek: 6-1, 6-0
- Storm Hunter (Q) beat Sara Errani: 6-4, 6-3
- Varvara Gracheva beat Yanina Wickmayer: 6-3, 6-4
- Viktoriya Tomova beat Kayla Day: 6-4, 6-2
- Elina Svitolina (19) beat Taylah Preston (WC): 6-2, 6-2
- Linda Noskova beat Marie Bouzkova (31): 6-1, 7-5
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Ella Seidel (Q): 6-0, 6-1
- Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Magda Linette (20): 6-2, 2-0 ret.
- Caroline Dolehide beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Alina Korneeva (Q) beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Amanda Anisimova beat Liudmila Samsonova (13): 6-3, 6-4
- Diane Parry beat Xinyu Wang (30): 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
- Maria Sakkari (8) beat Nao Hibino: 6-4, 6-1
- Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q) beat Ana Bogdan: 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Maria Timofeeva (Q) beat Alize Cornet (WC): 6-2, 6-4
- Alycia Parks beat Daria Snigur (Q): 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Tamara Korpatsch beat Jodie Burrage: 2-6, 6-3, 6-0
- Elina Avanesyan beat Zhuoxuan Bai: 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (9) beat Mai Hontama (WC): 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Lesia Tsurenko (28) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Kamilla Rakhimova beat Emina Bektas: 6-4, 6-4
- Leylah Fernandez (32) beat Sara Bejlek (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2
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