Australian Open: Zhang through to second round

Chinese wildcard Shuai Zhang reached the second round of the Australian Open by winning against American McCartney Kessler 6-3, 6-4 at Melbourne Park on Tuesday.

Zhang, ranked No 204, will play the winner of the match between Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 24 seed, and Armenian Elina Avanesyan next.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):

• Veronika Kudermetova vs. Olivia Gadecki
• Sijia Wei vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Camila Osorio vs. Maria Sakkari
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Ons Jabeur
• Rebecca Marino vs. Katie Boulter
• Taylor Townsend vs. Renata Zarazua
• Madison Keys vs. Ann Li
• Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q) beat Irina-Camelia Begu: 6-4, 6-0
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Elina Avanesyan: tuesday
• 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