Adelaide Open: Jabeur knocks out Collins in first round

Tunisian wildcard Ons Jabeur won against American Danielle Collins, the No 4 seed, 7-6 (6), 6-2 to reach the second round of the Adelaide Open at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Tuesday.

Jabeur needed a little over 90 minutes to knock Collins out.

The Tunisian faced a tough task in the opening set that went to a tiebreaker after she and Collins remained tied in the stipulated 12 games, breaking each other twice. The second set, however, panned out differently as the world No 40 converted two more break points to win the match.

Jabeur will face Kazakh Yulia Putintseva next.

Adelaide WTA 500, other first-round results (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):

• Belinda Bencic (Q) beat Anna Kalinskaya (7): 6-2, 1-0 ret.
• Ashlyn Krueger (LL) beat Marta Kostyuk: 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Diana Shnaider (6) beat Katerina Siniakova (Q): 6-3, 0-6, 6-0
• Jelena Ostapenko (8) beat Magdalena Frech: 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
• Liudmila Samsonova beat Marie Bouzkova (Q): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
• Maria Sakkari (LL) beat Linda Noskova: 6-3, 6-3
• Madison Keys beat Beatriz Haddad Maia: 6-2, 6-1
• Paula Badosa (5) beat Peyton Stearns (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5
• Marketa Vondrousova beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-2
• Daria Kasatkina (3) beat Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-2, 6-3
• Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Leylah Fernandez (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
• Emerson Jones (WC) beat Xinyu Wang (Q): 6-4, 6-0
• Yulia Putintseva beat Donna Vekic: 6-2, 6-3

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