Australia Open: Gauff, Pegula and Redukanu Power in second round

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Melbourne | American sensations Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula and Britain’s Emma Radukanu began their 2023 Australian Open campaigns with wins here on Monday. The 18-year-old Gauff defeated Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-4 to enter the second round.

Gauff won the first set in only 22 minutes. Siniakova came back in the second set and hit 22 strokes in the match, but later she came out weak.

Gauff made a quick comeback and won once again. In the longest game of the match, Siniakova saved six match points before the American finished off the game with a backhand volley winner.

After guiding her country to United Cup success in Sydney, another American Pegula carried her hard-court form to Melbourne, where she took just over an hour to prevail 6-0, 6-1 over Romanian Jacqueline Cristian. Took less time too.

Great Britain’s Redukanu faced Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch, who was aiming for her first Grand Slam main-draw win of her career, beating her 27-year-old rival 6-3, 6-2 in 1 hour 25 minutes. gave.

Radukanu will take on No. 7 seed Gauff in the second round, while Pegula awaits the winner of Brenda Fruhvitorva and Aliaskandra Sasnovich.

In other matches, No. 6 seeded Greek Maria Sakkari kicked off her eighth Australian Open campaign in 94 minutes in an opening 6-1, 6-4 win over China’s Yuan Yu. She trailed 3-1 in the second set.

Sakkari will next face another first-time Australian Open competitor, qualifier Diana Schnyder.

Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk capitalized on her successful history at Melbourne Park to beat No. 28 seed Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 6-4. The 20-year-old produced her first upset of the tournament in the 78th minute, breaking Anisimova on each of her four break points.(IANS)

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