Adelaide Open: Bencic makes second round
Belinda Bencic benefited from the abandonment of Anna Kalinskaya on Tuesday. She’ll face Russian Liudmila Samsonova next
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Swiss qualifier Belinda Bencic reached the second round of the Adelaide Open when Russian Anna Kalinskaya, the No 7 seed, retired at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Tuesday.
Bencic, ranked No 421, led 6-2, 1-0 when Kalinskaya, ranked No 14, pulled out.
The Swiss will play Russian Liudmila Samsonova 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
- Marta Kostyuk vs. Ashlyn Krueger
- Diana Shnaider (6) beat Katerina Siniakova (Q): 6-3, 0-6, 6-0
- Jelena Ostapenko (8) beat Magdalena Frech: 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
- Liudmila Samsonova beat Marie Bouzkova (Q): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Maria Sakkari (LL) beat Linda Noskova: 6-3, 6-3
- Madison Keys beat Beatriz Haddad Maia: 6-2, 6-1
- Paula Badosa (5) beat Peyton Stearns (Q): 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5
- Marketa Vondrousova beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-2
- Daria Kasatkina (3) beat Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-2, 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Leylah Fernandez (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
- Emerson Jones (WC) beat Xinyu Wang (Q): 6-4, 6-0
- Yulia Putintseva beat Donna Vekic: 6-2, 6-3
