Bencic benefits from Kalinskaya dropping out in Adelaide
The retirement of Russian No. 7 seed Anna Kalinskaya allowed Swiss qualifier Belinda Bencic to advance to the second round of the Adelaide tournament at Memorial Drive Tennis Park in Adelaide on Tuesday. The score was 6-2, 1-0 when Kalinskaya, the 14th WTA player in the world, was unable to continue the match.
Bencic, 421st in the world at the WTA, will face Russian Liudmila Samsonova in the second round of the South Australian tournament.
The other posters from the first round in Adelaide (WTA 500, Memorial Drive Tennis Park, hard, 1,064,510 USD, results displayed from newest to oldest):
- Danielle Collins – Ons Jabeur: scheduled for Tuesday
- Marta Kostyuk – Ashlyn Krueger : programmé mardi
- Diana Shnaider (N.6) – Katerina Siniakova (Q) : 6-3, 0-6, 6-0
- Jelena Ostapenko (N.8) – Magdalena Frech: 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
- Liudmila Samsonova – Marie Bouzkova (Q): 1-6, 6-4, 6-1
- Maria Sakkari (LL) – Linda Noskova : 6-3, 6-3
- Madison Keys – Beatriz Haddad Maia : 6-2, 6-1
- Paula Badosa (N.5) – Peyton Stearns (Q) : 6-7 [5]6-3, 7-5
- Marketa Vondrousova – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova : 6-4, 6-7 [4]6-2
- Daria Kasatkina (N.3) – Olivia Gadecki (WC): 6-2, 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova – Leylah Fernandez (Q): 6-4, 3-6, 6-2
- Emerson Jones (WC) – Xinyu Wang (Q) : 6-4, 6-0
- Yulia Putintseva – Donna Vekic : 6-2, 6-3
