Brisbane Open: Putintseva makes last 16
Yulia Putintseva beat McCartney Kessler 6-2, 7-5 on Tuesday and will play the winner of the match between Aryna Sabalenka and Renata Zarazua in the next round
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Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 15 seed, defeated American McCartney Kessler 6-2, 7-5 to advance to the last 16 of the Brisbane Open at the Queensland Tennis Centre on Tuesday.
Putintseva, ranked No 29, will play the winner of the match between Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the top seed, and Mexican Renata Zarazua next.
In the previous round of the Brisbane tournament, Kessler, ranked No 67, won against Pole Magda Linette (6-4, 6-4).
Brisbane WTA 500, other second-round results (Queensland Tennis Centre, hard, USD 1.520.600, most recent results first):
- Kimberly Birrell vs. Emma Navarro
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Yue Yuan vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Polina Kudermetova
- Suzan Lamens vs. Magdalena Frech
- Linda Noskova vs. Anca Todoni
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Maya Joint
- Ons Jabeur vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Diana Shnaider vs. Anhelina Kalinina
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Anna Blinkova vs. Mirra Andreeva
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Renata Zarazua
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Paula Badosa vs. Elina Avanesyan
