Australian Open lookahead: Gauff vs Raducanu in 2nd spherical

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — LOOKAHEAD TO WEDNESDAY

Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu will go head-to-head within the second spherical of the Australian Open. The seventh-seeded Gauff is the 18-year-old American who reached the ultimate of the French Open final 12 months. She additionally gained the title in Auckland earlier this month. Raducanu has been battling a left ankle damage. The 20-year-old British participant has not gone previous the second spherical in any Grand Slam occasion since she gained the U.S. Open in 2021. Rafael Nadal, the defending males’s champion, performs Mackenzie McDonald. The highest-seeded lady, Iga Swiatek, continues her title bid with a match in opposition to Camila Osorio

WEDNESDAY’S FORECAST

Showers early. Excessive of 73 levels Fahrenheit (23 Celsius).

TUESDAY’S KEY RESULTS

Girls’s First Spherical: No. 4 Caroline Garcia beat Katherine Sebov 6-3, 6-0; No. 5 Aryna Sabalenka beat Tereza Martincova 6-1, 6-4; Elise Mertens beat Garbine Muguruza 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-1; No. 30 Karolina Pliskova beat Wang Ziyu 6-1, 6-3; Kimberley Birrell beat No. 31 Kaia Kanepi 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1; Leylah Fernandez beat Alize Cornet 7-5, 6-2; Anna Karolina Schmiedlova beat No. 21 Martina Trevisan 6-3, 6-2.

Males’s First Spherical: No. 5 Andrey Rublev beat Dominic Thiem 6-3, 6-4, 6-2; No. 8 Taylor Fritz beat Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5; Andy Murray beat No. 13 Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (10-6).

STAT OF THE DAY

2017 – Andy Murray’s victory over Matteo Berrettini was the British participant’s first over a top-20 participant at a Grand Slam event since beating No. 9 Kei Nishikori within the quarterfinals of the 2017 French Open.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I cried like a child.” — Kimberley Birrell, on her response to listening to that she would obtain a wild-card invitation for the Australian Open’s most important draw after Venus Williams pulled out of the event.

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