Adelaide Open: Lucky loser Bucsa upsets Paolini, sets up Rybakina clash
Cristina Bucsa beat Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-3 on Monday. She’ll play top seed Elena Rybakina in the next round
Cristina Bucsa | © Zuma / Panoramic
Spanish lucky loser Cristina Bucsa won against Italian Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-3 to reach the second round of the Adelaide Open at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Monday.
Bucsa, ranked No 61, will play top seed and Brisbane champion Elena Rybakina next.
Adelaide WTA 500, other first-round matches (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 922,573):
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Q) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (5): 6-3, 6-4
- Marta Kostyuk beat Anhelina Kalinina: 7-6 (3), 6-1
- Katerina Siniakova vs. Karolina Pliskova
- Claire Liu vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Laura Siegemund
- Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Taylah Preston vs. Caroline Garcia
- Marketa Vondrousova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Magda Linette vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Paula Badosa vs. Bernarda Pera
- Katie Boulter vs. Ana Bogdan
- Anna Kalinskaya vs. Barbora Krejcikova
