Brisbane Open: Navarro ousted in second round

Australian wildcard Kimberly Birrell reached the last 16 of the Brisbane Open by winning against American Emma Navarro, the second seed, 7-5, 7-5 at the Queensland Tennis Centre on Wednesday.

After a tight start, Navarro and Birrell relied heavily on their return games as opposed to serving it out, exchanging 10 breaks, out of which seven came in the second set.

The Aussie eventually prevailed after two hours, three minutes, having broken the American six times with a 60 percent average on the second-serve return.

Birrell, ranked No 113, will face the winner of the match between Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 16 seed, and Russian Anastasia Potapova next.

Ahead of her victory, the Australian beat qualifier Priscilla Hon (3-6, 7-5, 6-2).

Brisbane WTA 500, other second-round results (Queensland Tennis Centre, hard, USD 1.520.600, most recent results first):

• Victoria Azarenka vs. Maya Joint
• Linda Noskova vs. Anca Todoni
• Yue Yuan vs. Marta Kostyuk
• Suzan Lamens vs. Magdalena Frech
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Polina Kudermetova
• Anhelina Kalinina beat Diana Shnaider (5): 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
• Ons Jabeur beat Ekaterina Alexandrova (14): 6-3, 6-2
• Marie Bouzkova beat Jelena Ostapenko (7): 7-6, 6-4
• Mirra Andreeva (8) beat Anna Blinkova: 6-4, 6-4
• Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Renata Zarazua: 6-4, 6-0
• Ashlyn Krueger beat Anna Kalinskaya (6): 6-3, 6-3
• Elina Avanesyan beat Paula Badosa (4): 6-3, 1-6, 6-2
• Yulia Putintseva (15) beat McCartney Kessler: 6-2, 7-5

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