Adelaide Open: Alexandrova reaches second round

Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova defeated Canadian qualifier Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the Adelaide Open at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Monday.

Alexandrova, ranked No 27, will face second seed Emma Navarro next.

Adelaide WTA 500, other first-round results (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):

• Danielle Collins vs. Ons Jabeur
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Belinda Bencic
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Magdalena Frech
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Diana Shnaider
• Marie Bouzkova vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Linda Noskova vs. Maria Sakkari
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Madison Keys
• Peyton Stearns vs. Paula Badosa
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Daria Kasatkina (3) beat Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-2, 6-3
• Emerson Jones (WC) beat Xinyu Wang (Q): 6-4, 6-0
• Yulia Putintseva beat Donna Vekic: 6-2, 6-3

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