Favoritele Angelique Kerber (1), Garbine Muguruza (7) si Venus Williams (13) au castigat meciurile pe care le-au disputat miercuri la Australian Open, obtinand calificarea in turul trei al intrecerii de la Melbourne. Dintre capii de serie, au parasit intrecerea Carla Suarez Navarro (10), Shuai Zhang (20), Irina-Camelia Begu (27) si Monica Puig (29).
Feminin, turul II, meciuri disputate miercuri:
7-Garbine Muguruza Blanco - Samantha Crawford 7-5 6-4
CoCo Vandeweghe - Pauline Parmentier 6-4 7-6(5)
Mona Barthel - 29-Monica Puig 6-4 6-4
Ashleigh Barty - Shelby Rogers 7-5 6-1
32-Anastasija Sevastova - Kristina Kucova 6-3 6-4
Sorana Cirstea - 10-Carla Suarez Navarro 7-6(1) 6-3
Eugenie Bouchard - Peng Shuai 7-6(5) 6-2
Kristyna Pliskova - 27-Irina Begu 6-4 7-6(8)
Jelena Jankovic - Julia Goerges 6-3 6-4
1-Angelique Kerber - Carina Witthoeft 6-2 6-7(3) 6-2
8-Svetlana Kuznetsova - Jaimee Fourlis 6-2 6-1
Alison Riske - 20-Zhang Shuai 7-6(7) 4-6 6-1
Duan Yingying - Varvara Lepchenko 6-1 3-6 10-8
13-Venus Williams - Stefanie Voegele 6-3 6-2
11-Elina Svitolina - Julia Boserup 6-4 6-1
24-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova - Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-2 6-2.
