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yWTA Adelaide International: Kvitova beats Rybakina in battle of Wimbledon champs
Petra Kvitova will play the winner of the match between Chinese qualifier Qinwen Zheng and American lucky loser Shelby Rogers in the next round
Czech Petra Kvitova, the No 12 seed, reached the last 16 of the WTA Adelaide International 2 by defeating Kazakh Elena Rybakina 6-3, 7-5 at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Monday.
Kvitova, ranked No 16, will play the winner of the match between Chinese qualifier Qinwen Zheng and American lucky loser Shelby Rogers next.
Adelaide WTA 500, other first-round results (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 780,637, most recent results first):
- Alison Riske-Amritraj vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Shelby Rogers
- Anett Kontaveit vs. Paula Badosa
- Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Storm Hunter
- Amanda Anisimova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Jelena Ostapenko vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Anastasia Potapova vs. Katerina Siniakova
- Garbine Muguruza vs. Belinda Bencic
- Jaimee Fourlis vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Sorana Cirstea
- Danielle Collins vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Jil Teichmann