Australian Open: Badosa drops one game to reach third round

Spaniard Paula Badosa, the No 11 seed, defeated Australian wildcard Talia Gibson 6-1, 6-0 to advance to the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday.

Badosa, ranked No 12, will play Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, the No 17 seed, next.

The Spaniard won against Chinese Xinyu Wang (6-3, 7-6 (5)) in the previous round of the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 season.

During the first round of the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 season, Gibson, ranked No 150, beat Zeynep Sonmez (3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-1).

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):

• Renata Zarazua vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Madison Keys vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Katie Boulter
• Destanee Aiava vs. Danielle Collins
• Elina Svitolina vs. Caroline Dolehide
• Eva Lys vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Lucia Bronzetti
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Erika Andreeva
• Elena Rybakina vs. Iva Jovic
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Shuai Zhang
• Rebecca Sramkova vs. Iga Swiatek
• Emma Navarro vs. Xiyu Wang
• Emma Raducanu vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Yafan Wang vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Ons Jabeur vs. Camila Osorio
• Danka Kovinic vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Donna Vekic (18) beat Harriet Dart (LL): 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
• Marta Kostyuk 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