Cori Coco Gauff (USA) continues with her convincing performance at the Australian Open and qualified for the third round after defeating her compatriot Caroline Dolehide by 2-0 (7:6, 6:2) in 1:44 hours.
The 4th-seeded Coco Gauff started strongly the match with an early break and took a lead by 3:0. However, she allowed her opponent to equalize for 4:4 and after another exchange of breaks the set entered into a tiebreak. However, her nerves were stronger and won by 7-2.
The second set was under the total domination of Cori Coco Gauff, who won five games in a row to close the set at 6:2 and win the match.
In the third round, she will face another American tennis player – Alycia Parks, who earlier today defeated Leylah Fernandez (Canada) by 2-0 (7:5, 6:4).
Amanda Anisimova (USA) also qualified for the third round after eliminated Nadia Podoroska (Argentina) by 2-0 (6:2, 6:3). In the next round the American player will face Paula Badosa (Spain), who defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) by 2-0 (6:2, 6:3).
The 8th-seeded Maria Sakkari (Greece) was knocked out in the second round of the tournament after losing to Elina Avanesyan (Russia) by 0-2 (4:6, 4:6). Same was the fate of 16th-seeded Caroline Garcia (France), who lost to Magdalena Frech (Poland) by 0-2 (4:6, 6:7) and the 25th-seeded Elise Mertens (Belgium), who missed a match point and eventually lost to Marta Kostyuk (Ukraine) by 1-2 (7:5, 1:6, 6:7).
Meanwhile, Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine) eliminated Rebeka Masarova (Spain) after 2-0 (6:3, 6:4) and Anastasia Zakharova (Russia) defeated Kaja Juvan (Slovenia) by 2-0 (6:1, 6:1).
The second-seeded Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) did not faced any problems to overcome the 16-year-old Czech talent Brenda Fruhvirtova after 2-0 (6:3, 6:2) in 68 minutes of play.
