Australian Open: Svitolina sweeps aside Dolehide to cruise into third round
Elina Svitolina beat Caroline Dolehide 6-1, 6-4. She’ll play the winner of the match between Renata Zarazua and Jasmine Paolini in the next round
Elina Svitolina (Virginie Bouyer/Panoramic)
Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the No 28 seed, reached the third round of the Australian Open by beating American Caroline Dolehide 6-1, 6-4 at Melbourne Park.
Svitolina, ranked No 27, will play the winner of the match between Mexican Renata Zarazua and Italian Jasmine Paolini, the No 4 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the Ukrainian won against Romanian Sorana Cirstea (6-4, 6-4).
Dolehide, ranked No 83, won against qualifier Sara Bejlek (7-6 (5), 6-2) in the previous round of the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 season.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):
- Renata Zarazua vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Destanee Aiava vs. Danielle Collins
- Madison Keys vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse: thursday
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Katie Boulter: thursday
- Jaqueline Cristian beat Lucia Bronzetti: 7-5, 7-5
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (15) beat Erika Andreeva: 6-2, 6-3
- Eva Lys (LL) beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-2, 3-6, 6-4
- Elena Rybakina (6) beat Iva Jovic (WC): 6-0, 6-3
- Yulia Putintseva (24) beat Shuai Zhang (WC): 6-2, 6-1
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Rebecca Sramkova: 6-0, 6-2
- Emma Navarro (8) beat Xiyu Wang: 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Emma Raducanu beat Amanda Anisimova: 6-3, 7-5
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Yafan Wang: 6-2, 6-0
- Ons Jabeur beat Camila Osorio: 7-5, 6-3
- Dayana Yastremska (32) beat Danka Kovinic: 6-0, 6-1
- Paula Badosa (11) beat Talia Gibson (WC): 6-1, 6-0
- Donna Vekic (18) beat Harriet Dart (LL): 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
- Marta Kostyuk (17) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-3, 6-0
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Jodie Burrage: 6-3, 7-5
- Diana Shnaider (12) beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 6-4, 7-5
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27) beat Anastasia Potapova: 7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-2
- Leylah Fernandez (30) beat Cristina Bucsa: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Naomi Osaka beat Karolina Muchova (20): 1-6, 6-1, 6-3
- Belinda Bencic beat Suzan Lamens: 6-1, 7-6 (3)
- Jessica Pegula (7) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 6-2
- Olga Danilovic beat Liudmila Samsonova (25): 6-1, 6-2
- Mirra Andreeva (14) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8)
- Magdalena Frech (23) beat Anna Blinkova: 0-6, 6-0, 6-2
- Clara Tauson beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-2
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-3, 7-5
- Laura Siegemund beat Qinwen Zheng (5): 7-6 (3), 6-3
