Australian Open: Vekic advances to third round to face Shnaider
Donna Vekic won against Harriet Dart 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 on Wednesday. She’ll play Russian Diana Shnaider, the No 12 seed, in the next round
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Croat Donna Vekic, the No 18 seed, reached the third round of the Australian Open by winning against lucky loser Harriet Dart 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 at Melbourne Park on Wednesday.
Vekic, ranked No 19, will play Russian Diana Shnaider, the No 12 seed, next.
Ahead of her victory, the Croat defeated Frenchwoman Diane Parry (6-4, 6-4).
Dart, ranked No 112, edged out Croat qualifier Jana Fett (7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (7)) in the previous round of the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 season.
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):
- Renata Zarazua vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Madison Keys vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Katie Boulter
- Destanee Aiava vs. Danielle Collins
- Elina Svitolina vs. Caroline Dolehide
- Eva Lys vs. Varvara Gracheva
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Lucia Bronzetti
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Erika Andreeva
- Elena Rybakina vs. Iva Jovic
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Shuai Zhang
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Iga Swiatek
- Emma Navarro vs. Xiyu Wang
- Emma Raducanu vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Yafan Wang vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Ons Jabeur vs. Camila Osorio
- Danka Kovinic vs. Dayana Yastremska
- Paula Badosa vs. Talia Gibson: wednesday
- Marta Kostyuk (17) beat Jule Niemeier: 6-3, 6-0
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Jodie Burrage: 6-3, 7-5
- Diana Shnaider beat Ajla Tomljanovic (WC): 6-4, 7-5
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27) beat Anastasia Potapova: 7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-2
- Leylah Fernandez (30) beat Cristina Bucsa: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Naomi Osaka beat Karolina Muchova (20): 1-6, 6-1, 6-3
- Belinda Bencic beat Suzan Lamens: 6-1, 7-6 (3)
- Jessica Pegula (7) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 6-2
- Olga Danilovic beat Liudmila Samsonova (25): 6-1, 6-2
- Mirra Andreeva (14) beat Moyuka Uchijima: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8)
- Magdalena Frech (23) beat Anna Blinkova: 0-6, 6-0, 6-2
- Clara Tauson beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-2
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Jessica Bouzas Maneiro: 6-3, 7-5
- Laura Siegemund beat Qinwen Zheng (5): 7-6 (3), 6-3
