Australian Open: Yastremska breezes past Gracheva to move into third round
Dayana Yastremska won against Varvara Gracheva 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday. She’ll play American Emma Navarro, the No 27 seed, in the next round
Dayana Yastremska, US Open, 2022 Zuma / Panoramic
Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska advanced to the third round of the Australian Open by winning against Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva 6-3, 6-2 at Melbourne Park.
Yastremska, ranked No 93, will play American Emma Navarro, the No 27 seed, next.
The Ukrainian defeated No 7 seed Marketa Vondrousova (6-1, 6-2) in the previous round.
In the previous round, Gracheva, ranked No 39, won against Belgian Yanina Wickmayer (6-3, 6-4).
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other second-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):
- Clara Tauson vs. Victoria Azarenka
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
- Elena Rybakina vs. Anna Blinkova: thursday
- Viktorija Golubic beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-3, 2-6, 6-4
- Yafan Wang beat Emma Raducanu: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
- Elina Svitolina (19) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-1, 6-3
- Emma Navarro beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto: 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Clara Burel beat Jessica Pegula (5): 6-4, 6-2
- Qinwen Zheng (12) beat Katie Boulter: 6-3, 6-3
- Sloane Stephens beat Daria Kasatkina (14): 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Jasmine Paolini (26) beat Tatjana Maria: 6-2, 6-3
- Oceane Dodin beat Martina Trevisan: 6-4, 6-4
- Iga Swiatek (1) beat Danielle Collins: 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya beat Arantxa Rus: 6-1, 7-5
- Linda Noskova beat Mccartney Kessler (WC): 6-3, 1-6, 6-4
- Elina Avanesyan beat Maria Sakkari (8): 6-4, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Elise Mertens (25): 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (6)
- Lesia Tsurenko (28) beat Rebeka Masarova: 6-3, 6-4
- Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Brenda Fruhvirtova (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Paula Badosa beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-2, 6-3
- Magdalena Frech beat Caroline Garcia (16): 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Anastasia Zakharova (Q) beat Kaja Juvan: 6-1, 6-1
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (10) beat Alina Korneeva (Q): 6-1, 6-2
- Amanda Anisimova beat Nadia Podoroska: 6-2, 6-3
- Diane Parry beat Kamilla Rakhimova: 7-5, 6-2
- Coco Gauff (4) beat Caroline Dolehide: 7-6 (2), 6-2
- Barbora Krejcikova (9) beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-2, 6-2
- Alycia Parks beat Leylah Fernandez (32): 7-5, 6-4
- Storm Hunter (Q) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
- Mirra Andreeva beat Ons Jabeur (6): 6-0, 6-2
- Maria Timofeeva (Q) beat Caroline Wozniacki (WC): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
