Adelaide Open: Sakkari makes second round
Maria Sakkari beat Linda Noskova 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday night. She’ll play top seed Jessica Pegula in the next round
Maria Sakkari in Madrid (Zuma/Panoramic)
Greek lucky loser Maria Sakkari advanced to the second round of the Adelaide Open by winning against Linda Noskova 6-3, 6-3 at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Tuesday.
Sakkari, ranked No 32, will play top seed Jessica Pegula 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
- 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
