Australian Open: Bronzetti knocks out Azarenka in straight sets

Italian Lucia Bronzetti beat Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 21 seed, 6-2, 7-6 (2) to reach the second round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday.

Bronzetti, ranked No 78, will play the winner of the match between Croat lucky loser Petra Martic and Romanian Jaqueline Cristian next.

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

• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Olivia Gadecki
• Sijia Wei vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Madison Keys vs. Ann Li
• Camila Osorio vs. Maria Sakkari
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Ons Jabeur
• Rebecca Marino vs. Katie Boulter
• Taylor Townsend vs. Renata Zarazua
• Shuai Zhang vs. McCartney Kessler
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Danka Kovinic vs. Lulu Sun
• Elena Rybakina vs. Emerson Jones
• Varvara Gracheva vs. Catherine McNally
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
• Nuria Parrizas Diaz vs. Iva Jovic
• Mayar Sherif vs. Dayana Yastremska
• Emma Navarro vs. Peyton Stearns
• Maria Lourdes Carle vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Emma Raducanu
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Anna Bondar vs. Yafan Wang
• Xiyu Wang vs. Julia Grabher
• Saisai Zheng vs. Erika Andreeva
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Julia Riera
• Daria Snigur vs. Danielle Collins
• Naomi Osaka vs. Caroline Garcia
• Maya Joint vs. Jessica Pegula
• Greet Minnen vs. Destanee Aiava
• Karolina Muchova vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Elise Mertens vs. Viktorija Golubic
• Nao Hibino vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Petra Martic vs. Jaqueline Cristian
• Jule Niemeier vs. Maja Chwalinska
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Yue Yuan
• Belinda Bencic vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Tamara Zidansek vs. Anastasia Potapova: monday
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Iga Swiatek: monday
• Sara Bejlek vs. Caroline Dolehide: monday
• Harriet Dart vs. Jana Fett: monday
• Elina Svitolina (28) beat Sorana Cirstea: 6-4, 6-4
• Magdalena Frech (23) beat Polina Kudermetova (Q): 6-4, 6-4
• Coco Gauff (3) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-3, 6-3
• Ajla Tomljanovic (WC) beat Ashlyn Krueger: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Rebecca Sramkova beat Katie Volynets: 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
• Olga Danilovic beat Arantxa Rus: 6-4, 6-4
• Liudmila Samsonova (25) beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 6-2, 6-4
• Talia Gibson (WC) beat Zeynep Sonmez: 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-1
• Jodie Burrage beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-2, 6-4
• Laura Siegemund beat Hailey Baptiste: 4-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Diana Shnaider (12) beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 7-6 (4), 6-4
• Moyuka Uchijima beat Magda Linette: 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (8)
• Anna Blinkova beat Daria Saville (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 7-5
• Cristina Bucsa beat Chloe Paquet (WC): 6-2, 6-3
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Sloane Stephens: 6-3, 6-2
• Jessica Bouzas Maneiro beat Sonay Kartal: 6-1, 7-6 (5)
• Clara Tauson beat Linda Noskova (29): 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
• Paula Badosa (11) beat Xinyu Wang: 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Donna Vekic (18) beat Diane Parry: 6-4, 6-4
• Qinwen Zheng (5) beat Anca Todoni (Q): 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Suzan Lamens beat Veronika Erjavec (Q): 7-5, 7-6 (2)
• Leylah Fernandez (30) beat Yuliia Starodubtseva: 7-5, 6-4
• Mirra Andreeva (14) beat Marie Bouzkova: 6-3, 6-3
• Tatjana Maria beat Bernarda Pera: 7-6 (3), 6-4