Australian Open Results
Wednesday
At Melbourne Park
Melbourne, Australia
Purse: AUD43,250,000
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (AP) _ Results Wednesday from Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses):
Women’s Singles
Second Round
Olga Danilovic, Serbia, def. Liudmila Samsonova (25), Russia, 6-1, 6-2.
Clara Tauson, Denmark, def. Tatjana Maria, Germany, 6-2, 6-2.
Jessica Pegula (7), United States, def. Elise Mertens, Belgium, 6-4, 6-2.
Magdalena Frech (23), Poland, def. Anna Blinkova, Russia, 0-6, 6-0, 6-2.
Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, def. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, 6-3, 7-5.
Laura Siegemund, Germany, def. Zheng Qinwen (5), China, 7-6 (3), 6-3.
Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, def. Suzan Lamens, Netherlands, 6-1, 7-6 (3).
Men’s Doubles
First Round
Ariel Behar, Uruguay, and Robert Galloway, United States, def. Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, and Alexander Shevchenko, Russia, 6-4, 6-1.
Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori (3), Italy, def. Hendrik Jebens and Constantin Frantzen, Germany, 6-3, 6-4.
Women’s Doubles
First Round
Shuko Aoyama and Eri Hozumi, Japan, def. Caroline Dolehide and Ashlyn Krueger, United States, 6-4, 6-2.
Viktoriya Tomova, Bulgaria, and Rebecca Sramkova, Slovakia, def. Wang Yafan and Xinyu Jiang, China, 6-2, 7-5.