Australian Open: Zhang sets up third round clash against qualifier Volynets
Shuai Zhang defeated Petra Martic 6-3, 6-3 in the second round at Melbourne Park
Shuai Zhang 2022 / © Al Reuters / Panoramic
China’s Shuai Zhang, the No 23 seed, reached the third round of the Australian Open by winning against Croat Petra Martic 6-3, 6-3 at Melbourne Park on Thursday.
Zhang, ranked No 22 in the world, will face American qualifier Katie Volynets next. Ahead of her win today, the 33-year-old Chinese defeated Romanian Patricia Maria Tig (6-1, 4-6, 6-0).
Martic, ranked No 37, had won against Swiss Viktorija Golubic (6-3, 6-4) in the first round.
Australian Open (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24,297,942, most recent results first):
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Ons Jabeur
- Claire Liu vs. Belinda Bencic
- Varvara Gracheva vs. Lucrezia Stefanini
- Leylah Fernandez vs. Caroline Garcia
- Nuria Parrizas Diaz beat Anastasia Potapova: 6-3, 6-2
- Linda Fruhvirtova beat Kimberly Birrell (WC): 6-3, 6-2
- Karolina Pliskova (30) beat Yulia Putintseva: 6-0, 7-5
- Donna Vekic beat Liudmila Samsonova (18): 6-3, 6-0
- Camila Giorgi beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Q): 6-4, 6-3
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Laura Siegemund: thursday
- Magda Linette beat Anett Kontaveit (16): 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Elise Mertens (26) beat Lauren Davis: 6-4, 6-3
- Aryna Sabalenka (5) beat Shelby Rogers: 6-3, 6-1
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (19) beat Taylor Townsend (WC): 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Katie Volynets beat Veronika Kudermetova (9): 6-4, 2-6, 6-2
- Victoria Azarenka (24) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-1, 6-0
- Danielle Collins (13) beat Karolina Muchova: 6-7 (1), 6-2, 7-6 (6)
- Bernarda Pera beat Qinwen Zheng (29): 6-4, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Elena Rybakina (22) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-2, 6-1
- Coco Gauff (7) beat Emma Raducanu: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
- Kateryna Baindl beat Catherine McNally: 6-1, 7-6 (4)
- Madison Keys (10) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (20) beat Clara Burel (Q): 6-4, 6-1
- Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Bianca Andreescu: 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4
- Lin Zhu beat Jil Teichmann (32): 6-2, 6-2
- Jelena Ostapenko (17) beat Anna Bondar: 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-0
- Anhelina Kalinina beat Petra Kvitova (15): 7-5, 6-4
- Jessica Pegula (3) beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich: 6-2, 7-6 (5)
- Maria Sakkari (6) beat Diana Shnaider (Q): 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Camila Osorio: 6-2, 6-3
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