WTA Adelaide: Siegemund rides United Cup confidence to upset Samsonova

German Laura Siegemund reached the second round of the Adelaide Open by edging out Russian Liudmila Samsonova, the No 7 seed, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4 at the Memorial Drive Tennis Park on Tuesday.

Siegemund, ranked No 89 and part of Germany’s winning United Cup team over the weekend, will face Romanian lucky loser Ana Bogdan next.

Adelaide WTA 500, other first-round matches (Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, USD 922,573)

• Bernarda Pera (LL) beat Paula Badosa (WC): 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
• Ana Bogdan beat Katie Boulter (Q): 6-3, 6-4
• Anna Kalinskaya (Q) beat Barbora Krejcikova (4): 7-5, 3-6, 7-5
• Cristina Bucsa (LL) beat Jasmine Paolini: 6-3, 6-3
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Q) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (5): 6-3, 6-4
• Marta Kostyuk beat Anhelina Kalinina: 7-6 (3), 6-1
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Katerina Siniakova vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Magda Linette vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Claire Liu vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Taylah Preston vs. Caroline Garcia
• Ashlyn Krueger vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Jelena Ostapenko

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