Pavlyuchenkova defeats Vekic to book round 2 at Australian Open
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won against Donna Vekic 6-4, 6-4 on Monday night. She’ll face the winner of the match between American Taylor Townsend and Spaniard Paula Badosa in the next round
Three-time Australian Open quarter-finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova came through a very difficult first-round challenge to reach the second round at the Australian Open, defeating 21st-seeded Donna Vekic, 6-4, 6-4 in Margaret Court Arena on Monday.
Pavlyuchenkova, ranked No 46, will next face the winner of the match between American Taylor Townsend and Spaniard Paula Badosa next. She improved to 2-0 lifetime against Vekic, who reached the quarter-finals last year in Melbourne, with her win.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Rebecca Marino vs. Jessica Pegula
- Elena Rybakina vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Petra Martic vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Emma Raducanu vs. Shelby Rogers
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Yafan Wang vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Aleksandra Krunic vs. Clara Burel
- Katie Boulter vs. Yue Yuan
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Anna Blinkova
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Camila Giorgi vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Lin Zhu vs. Oceane Dodin
- Emma Navarro vs. Xiyu Wang
- Greet Minnen vs. Clara Tauson
- Danielle Collins vs. Angelique Kerber
- Iga Swiatek vs. Sofia Kenin
- Renata Zarazua vs. Martina Trevisan
- Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Sloane Stephens vs. Olivia Gadecki
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Lulu Sun
- Caroline Garcia vs. Naomi Osaka
- Ons Jabeur vs. Yulia Starodubtseva
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Arantxa Rus
- Taylor Townsend vs. Paula Badosa
- Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Bernarda Pera
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Anastasia Zakharova
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katie Volynets
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Katerina Siniakova: monday
- Elise Mertens (25) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-2, 2-0 ret.
- Magdalena Frech vs. Daria Saville: monday
- 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