The German Alexander Zverev, seeded n°2, qualified for the third round of the Australian Open, largely dominating the Spaniard Pedro Martinez Portero (6-1, 6-4, 6-1 ) Wednesday morning, at Melbourne Park.
This is the eighth time in his career that the German player has reached this stage of the competition at the Australian Open, where his best result is a semi-final last year and in 2020.
Zverev, 2nd ATP player in the world, will face Jacob Fearnley in the third round of the 2025 Australian Open.
During the previous round of the Australian Grand Slam, the German won against French wild card Lucas Pouille (6-4, 6-4, 6-4).
Martinez Portero, ranked 44th in the ATP, took advantage of the abandonment of the Italian Luciano Darderi (6-3, 4-1 ab.).
Other second round matches at the Australian Open (Grand Slam, Melbourne Park, hard, 60,627,573 USD, results displayed from newest to oldest):
- Learner Tien – Daniil Medvedev: scheduled for Thursday
- Jannik Sinner – Tristan Schoolkate: scheduled for Thursday
- Matteo Berrettini – Holger Rune: scheduled for Thursday
- Joao Fonseca – Lorenzo Sonego: programmé jeudi
- Fabian Marozsan – Frances Tiafoe: scheduled for Thursday
- Alex Michelsen – James McCabe: scheduled for Thursday
- Corentin Moutet – Mitchell Krueger: scheduled for Thursday
- Marcos Giron – Tomas Martin Etcheverry: scheduled for Thursday
- Tristan Boyer – Alex De Minaur: scheduled for Thursday
- Ben Shelton – Pablo Carreno Busta: scheduled for Thursday
- Taylor Fritz – Cristian Garin: scheduled for Thursday
- Denis Shapovalov – Lorenzo Musetti: scheduled for Thursday
- Daniel Altmaier – Gael Monfils: scheduled for Thursday
- Francisco Cerundolo – Facundo Diaz Acosta: scheduled for Thursday
- Gabriel Diallo – Karen Khachanov: scheduled for Thursday
- Hubert Hurkacz – Miomir Kecmanovic: to play
- Kei Nishikori – Tommy Paul: scheduled for Wednesday
- Ugo Humbert (N.14) – Hady Habib (Q): 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina – Felix Auger-Aliassime : scheduled for Wednesday
- Jack Draper – Thanasi Kokkinakis: scheduled for Wednesday
- Jakub Mensik – Casper Ruud (N.6) : 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
- Jacob Fearnley – Arthur Cazaux : 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-3
- Aleksandar Vukic – Sebastian Korda (N.22) : 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5
- Arthur Fils (N.20) – Quentin Halys: 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 [2]7-5
- Roberto Carballes Baena – James Duckworth: 6-4, 6-2, 7-5
- Novak Djokovic (N.7) – Jaime Faria (Q): 6-1, 6-7 [4]6-3, 6-2
- Nuno Borges – Jordan Thompson (N.27) : 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
- Benjamin Bonzi – Francesco Passaro (LL): 6-2, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Carlos Alcaraz (N.3) – Yoshihito Nishioka : 6-0, 6-1, 6-4
- Jiri Lehecka (N.24) – Hugo Gaston: Lehecka qualified (6-3, 3-1 ab.)
- Tomas Machac (N.26) – Reilly Opelka: 3-6, 7-6 [1]6-7 [5]7-6 [4]6-4