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
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
