WTA Hobart: Putintseva rebounds from 6-0, 4-0 down to beat Cocciaretto
The Kazakh will meet winner of the match between No 5 seed Marie Bouzkova and Swiss qualifier Viktorija Golubic in the next round
Yulia Putintseva at the 2023 National Bank Open
Kazakh qualifier Yulia Putintseva reached the second round of the Hobart International by edging out Elisabetta Cocciaretto in a dramatic comeback after losing the first 10 games of their match.
Trailing 6-0, 4-0 to her Italian rival, Putintseva fought her way back into the match, coming from 5-2 down to win five games in a row and claim the second set 7-5.
In the decider, the feisty Kazak found herself trailing 5-3 again before fighting back to claim the match in a third set tiebreak 0-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4) in two hours and 18 minutes.
Putintseva, ranked No 64 in the world, will play the winner of the match between No 5 seed Marie Bouzkova and Swiss qualifier Viktorija Golubic next.
Hobart WTA 250, other first-round matches (Hobart’s Domain Tennis Centre, hard, USD 267,082):
- Tatjana Maria (9) beat Nadia Podoroska (LL): 6-1, 4-3 ret.
- Sofia Kenin (6) beat Greet Minnen: 6-3, 6-3
- Viktoriya Tomova (LL) beat Martina Trevisan: 6-3, 6-3
- Caroline Dolehide beat Mayar Sherif: 6-1, 6-4
- Lin Zhu (3) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 7-5, 6-1
- Daria Saville (WC) beat Anna Blinkova: 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Elise Mertens (1) beat Danielle Collins: 6-2, 6-3
- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (Q) beat Camila Osorio (Q): 1-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5
- Varvara Gracheva (8) beat Peyton Stearns: 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-5
- Arantxa Rus beat Linda Fruhvirtova (LL): 6-3, 5-7, 6-3
- Clara Burel vs. Emma Navarro
- Olivia Gadecki vs. Xinyu Wang
- Magdalena Frech vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Marie Bouzkova vs. Viktorija Golubic
- Yue Yuan vs. Sloane Stephens
