Australian Open: Bencic makes third round
Belinda Bencic won against Claire Liu 7-6 (3), 6-3 on Thursday and will play Italian Camila Giorgi in the next round
Tennis – Australian Open – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia – January 19, 2023 Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic in action during her second round match against Claire Liu of the U.S. (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Swiss Belinda Bencic, the No 12 seed, moved into the third round of the Australian Open by beating American Claire Liu 7-6 (3), 6-3 at Melbourne Park on Thursday.
Bencic, ranked No 10, will face Italian Camila Giorgi next.
The Swiss won against Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova (6-1, 6-2) in the previous round.
During the first round, Liu, ranked No 62, defeated Madison Brengle (6-3, 6-4).
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Ons Jabeur
- Varvara Gracheva beat Lucrezia Stefanini (Q): 6-3, 6-1
- Caroline Garcia (4) beat Leylah Fernandez: 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Shuai Zhang (23) beat Petra Martic: 6-3, 6-3
- 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
- Laura Siegemund beat Irina-Camelia Begu (27): 5-7, 7-5, 6-3
- 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 (Q) 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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