WTA Adelaide International: Badosa wins battle of former world No 2s over Kontaveit
Paula Badosa will play Estonian lucky loser Kaia Kanepi in the next round
Paula Badosa a un coup à jouer
Spain’s Paula Badosa, the No 9 seed, reached the last 16 of the Adelaide International 2 by winning against Estonian Anett Kontaveit 6-4, 6-3 at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Tuesday.
Badosa, ranked No 11, will face Estonian lucky loser Kaia Kanepi next.
Adelaide WTA 500, other first-round results (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 780.637, most recent results first):
- Kaia Kanepi beat Storm Hunter (WC): 6-2, 6-2
- Veronika Kudermetova (6) beat Victoria Azarenka (WC): 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4
- Katerina Siniakova (Q) beat Anastasia Potapova (LL): 6-1, 1-0 ret.
- Anna Kalinskaya (Q) beat Jelena Ostapenko: 6-3, 6-4
- Barbora Krejcikova beat Alison Riske-Amritraj (LL): 6-2, 7-6 (3)
- Qinwen Zheng (Q) beat Shelby Rogers (LL): 4-6, 6-4, 6-0
- Amanda Anisimova (LL) beat Liudmila Samsonova: 7-5, 6-3
- Belinda Bencic (8) beat Garbine Muguruza (WC): 6-3, 6-4
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Jaimee Fourlis (WC): 7-5, 6-3
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (11) beat Sorana Cirstea (Q): 7-6 (5), 6-1
- Danielle Collins (10) beat Karolina Pliskova (Q): 6-2, 6-4
- Petra Kvitova (12) beat Elena Rybakina: 6-3, 7-5
- Jil Teichmann (Q) beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 7-5, 6-4
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