WTA Adelaide: Townsend reaches second round, faces Kostyuk next
Taylor Townsend beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Tuesday and will play Marta Kostyuk in the next round
Taylor Townsend (Zuma / Panoramic)
American lucky loser Taylor Townsend beat Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3, 7-6 (4) to move into the second round of the Adelaide Open at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Tuesday.
Townsend, ranked No 80, will play Marta Kostyuk next.
Adelaide WTA 500, other first-round results (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 922.573):
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Magda Linette: 3-6, 7-6 (8), 7-5
- Daria Kasatkina beat Claire Liu (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Katerina Siniakova (Q) beat Karolina Pliskova (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Caroline Garcia beat Taylah Preston (WC): 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
- Veronika Kudermetova (8) beat Ashlyn Krueger (LL): 6-2, 7-5
- Jelena Ostapenko (6) beat Sorana Cirstea: 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Laura Siegemund beat Liudmila Samsonova (7): 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4
- Bernarda Pera (LL) beat Paula Badosa (WC): 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Ana Bogdan (LL) beat Katie Boulter (Q): 6-3, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya (Q) beat Barbora Krejcikova (4): 7-5, 3-6, 7-5
- Cristina Bucsa (LL) beat Jasmine Paolini: 6-3, 6-3
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Q) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (5): 6-3, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Anhelina Kalinina: 7-6 (3), 6-1
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