Australian Open: Keys too good for compatriot Li, books spot in second round
Madison Keys won against Ann Li 6-4, 7-5 on Tuesday night and will face qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse in the next round
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No 19 seed Madison Keys reached the second round of the Australian Open by winning against Ann Li 6-4, 7-5 at Melbourne Park.
Keys, ranked No 14, will play qualifier Elena-Gabriela Ruse next.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Olivia Gadecki
- Camila Osorio vs. Maria Sakkari
- Sijia Wei vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Ons Jabeur
- Rebecca Marino vs. Katie Boulter
- Taylor Townsend vs. Renata Zarazua
- Shuai Zhang (WC) beat McCartney Kessler: 6-3, 6-4
- Elena-Gabriela Ruse beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-4, 6-0
- Yulia Putintseva (24) beat Elina Avanesyan: 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Danka Kovinic beat Lulu Sun: 6-3, 7-5
- Elena Rybakina (6) beat Emerson Jones (WC): 6-1, 6-1
- Varvara Gracheva beat Catherine McNally: 6-3, 6-4
- Eva Lys (13) beat Kimberly Birrell (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Dayana Yastremska (32) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-1, 6-4
- Iva Jovic (WC) beat Nuria Parrizas Diaz: 6-2, 6-1
- Emma Navarro (8) beat Peyton Stearns: 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-5
- Amanda Anisimova beat Maria Lourdes Carle: 6-2, 6-3
- Emma Raducanu beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (26): 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2)
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-1, 6-3
- Yafan Wang beat Anna Bondar: 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
- Xiyu Wang beat Julia Grabher: 6-1, 7-5
- Erika Andreeva beat Saisai Zheng: 6-1, 7-6 (6)
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (15) beat Julia Riera (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Naomi Osaka beat Caroline Garcia: 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
- Danielle Collins (10) beat Daria Snigur (Q): 7-6 (4), 6-3
- Karolina Muchova (20) beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-1, 6-1
- Destanee Aiava (Q) beat Greet Minnen: 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (5)
- Elise Mertens beat Viktorija Golubic (Q): 4-6, 7-6 (8), 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk (17) beat Nao Hibino (Q): 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
- Jaqueline Cristian beat Petra Martic (LL): 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (7)
- Jessica Pegula (7) beat Maya Joint (WC): 6-3, 6-0
- Jule Niemeier beat Maja Chwalinska (Q): 6-0, 6-1
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27) beat Yue Yuan: 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Belinda Bencic beat Jelena Ostapenko (16): 6-3, 7-6 (6)
- Anastasia Potapova beat Tamara Zidansek (Q): 6-2, 7-5
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-3, 6-4
- Caroline Dolehide beat Sara Bejlek (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2
- Harriet Dart (LL) beat Jana Fett (Q): 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (7)
- Lucia Bronzetti beat Victoria Azarenka (21): 6-2, 7-6 (2)
- 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
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