Australian Open: Sabalenka advances to second round, drops one game v qualifier Seidel
Aryna Sabalenka beat Ella Seidel 6-0, 6-1 on Sunday and will play qualifier Brenda Fruhvirtova in the next round
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Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, moved into the second round of the Australian Open by beating German qualifier Ella Seidel 6-0, 6-1 at Melbourne Park on Sunday afternoon.
The occasion was clearly too much for the 18-year-old, who was visibly upset as she was taken apart by the defending champion.
The long wait to begin their match probably did not help; the two were scheduled for the Rod Laver Arena after the conclusion of Novak Djokovic’s four-hour encounter against Dino Prizmic.
Sabalenka, ranked No 2, will face qualifier Brenda Fruhvirtova next.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Rebecca Marino vs. Jessica Pegula
- Elena Rybakina vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Petra Martic vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Emma Raducanu vs. Shelby Rogers
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Yafan Wang vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Aleksandra Krunic vs. Clara Burel
- Katie Boulter vs. Yue Yuan
- Cristina Bucsa vs. Anna Blinkova
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Kimberly Birrell
- Camila Giorgi vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Lin Zhu vs. Oceane Dodin
- Emma Navarro vs. Xiyu Wang
- Greet Minnen vs. Clara Tauson
- Danielle Collins vs. Angelique Kerber
- Iga Swiatek vs. Sofia Kenin
- Renata Zarazua vs. Martina Trevisan
- Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Sloane Stephens vs. Olivia Gadecki
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Lulu Sun
- Caroline Garcia vs. Naomi Osaka
- Ons Jabeur vs. Yulia Starodubtseva
- Taylor Townsend vs. Paula Badosa
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Bernarda Pera
- Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katie Volynets
- Anhelina Kalinina vs. Arantxa Rus
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Anastasia Zakharova
- Magdalena Frech vs. Daria Saville
- Mayar Sherif vs. Elise Mertens
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Donna Vekic
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Claire Liu
- Diana Shnaider vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Tatjana Maria vs. Camila Osorio
- Fiona Ferro vs. Mccartney Kessler
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Laura Siegemund
- Kaja Juvan vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Coco Gauff
- Nadia Podoroska vs. Tamara Zidansek
- Storm Hunter vs. Sara Errani
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Marketa Vondrousova
- Yanina Wickmayer vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Kayla Day vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Elina Svitolina vs. Taylah Preston
- Linda Noskova vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Magda Linette (20): 6-2, 2-0 ret.
- Caroline Dolehide beat Leolia Jeanjean (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Alina Korneeva (Q) beat Sara Sorribes Tormo: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Amanda Anisimova beat Liudmila Samsonova (13): 6-3, 6-4
- Diane Parry beat Xinyu Wang (30): 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
- Maria Sakkari (8) beat Nao Hibino: 6-4, 6-1
- Brenda Fruhvirtova beat Ana Bogdan: 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Maria Timofeeva (Q) beat Alize Cornet (WC): 6-2, 6-4
- Alycia Parks beat Daria Snigur (Q): 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
- Tamara Korpatsch beat Jodie Burrage: 2-6, 6-3, 6-0
- Elina Avanesyan beat Zhuoxuan Bai: 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (9) beat Mai Hontama (WC): 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
- Lesia Tsurenko (28) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
- Kamilla Rakhimova beat Emina Bektas: 6-4, 6-4
- Leylah Fernandez (32) beat Sara Bejlek (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-2
