Australian Open: Gracheva into third round, Pliskova next

Russian Varvara Gracheva beat Italian qualifier Lucrezia Stefanini 6-3, 6-1 to reach the third round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Thursday night.

Gracheva, ranked No 97, will play Czech Karolina Pliskova, the No 30 seed, next.

The 22-year-old Russian won against No 8 seed Daria Kasatkina (6-1, 6-1) in the previous round. Stefanini, ranked No 141, edged out German Tatjana Maria (3-6, 7-5, 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 : Thursday in Melbourne
• Claire Liu vs. Belinda Bencic: Thursday in Melbourne
• 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 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