WTA Hobart: Putintseva rebounds from 6-0, 4-0 down to beat Cocciaretto

The Kazakh will meet winner of the match between No 5 seed Marie Bouzkova and Swiss qualifier Viktorija Golubic in the next round

Yulia Putintseva at the 2023 National Bank Open
Hobart International •Third round • completed
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Kazakh qualifier Yulia Putintseva reached the second round of the Hobart International by edging out Elisabetta Cocciaretto in a dramatic comeback after losing the first 10 games of their match.

Trailing 6-0, 4-0 to her Italian rival, Putintseva fought her way back into the match, coming from 5-2 down to win five games in a row and claim the second set 7-5.

In the decider, the feisty Kazak found herself trailing 5-3 again before fighting back to claim the match in a third set tiebreak 0-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4) in two hours and 18 minutes.

Putintseva, ranked No 64 in the world, will play the winner of the match between No 5 seed Marie Bouzkova and Swiss qualifier Viktorija Golubic next.

Hobart WTA 250, other first-round matches (Hobart’s Domain Tennis Centre, hard, USD 267,082):

  • Tatjana Maria (9) beat Nadia Podoroska (LL): 6-1, 4-3 ret.
  • Sofia Kenin (6) beat Greet Minnen: 6-3, 6-3
  • Viktoriya Tomova (LL) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-3, 6-3
  • Caroline Dolehide beat Mayar Sherif: 6-1, 6-4
  • Lin Zhu (3) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 7-5, 6-1
  • Daria Saville (WC) beat Anna Blinkova: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
  • Elise Mertens (1) beat Danielle Collins: 6-2, 6-3
  • Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Q) beat Camila Osorio (Q): 1-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5
  • Varvara Gracheva (8) beat Peyton Stearns: 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-5
  • Arantxa Rus beat Linda Fruhvirtova (LL): 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
  • Clara Burel vs. Emma Navarro
  • Olivia Gadecki vs. Xinyu Wang
  • Magdalena Frech vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
  • Marie Bouzkova vs. Viktorija Golubic
  • Yue Yuan vs. Sloane Stephens

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