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MELBOURNE, Australia – Some late-night dramatics, but in the end most of the seeds came through and things will get even tighter in the second round.
Maja Chwalinska, a member of Team Poland at United Cup, had to turn it around in a hurry and play on Court 15 Tuesday night before family and friends – and overcome a 3-7 deficit in the deciding mach tibreak to live to play another day.
There was a lot of that.
(Melbourne is 16 hours ahead of ET).
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Australian Open
Women’s qualifying, second round
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Final results
Injury retirements
[WC] MICIC, Elena (AUS) def ASTAKHOVA, Darya (RUS) 62 31 retd
[30] SNIGUR, Daria (UKR) def PALICOVA, Barbora (CZE) 63 10 retd
Big comebacks
[16] MARTIC, Petra (CRO) def GAO, Xinyu (CHN) 36 76 (5) 64
[26] TEICHMANN, Jil (SUI) def JONES, Francesca (GBR) 46 76 (13) 63
Upsets
FRUHVIRTOVA, Brenda (CZE) def [4] ERRANI, Sara (ITA) 60 62
[WC] INGLIS, Maddison (AUS) def [5] SORRIBES TORMO, Sara (ESP) 46 63 63
MASAROVA, Rebeka (SUI) def [7] SCHMIEDLOVA, Anna Karolina (SVK) 64 75
BEJLEK, Sara (CZE) def [8] ZAKHAROVA, Anastasia (RUS) 64 64
STOJANOVIC, Nina (SRB) def [11] MONTGOMERY, Robin (USA) 64 67 (5) 63
ERJAVEC, Veronika (SLO) def [22] SAWANGKAEW, Mananchaya (THA) 62 63
BEKTAS, Emina (USA) def [29] TIMOFEEVA, Maria (RUS) 76 (5) 36 75
JEANJEAN, Leolia (FRA) def [31] SEIDEL, Ella (GER) 57 64 62
Seeds advancing
[2] GOLUBIC, Viktorija (SUI) def. PIGOSSI, Laura (BRA) 62 62
[3] DART, Harriet (GBR) def [WC] PRESTON, Taylah (AUS) 67 (7) 61 62
[6] KUDERMETOVA, Polina (RUS) def MLADENOVIC, Kristina (FRA) 75 64
[9] BIRRELL, Kimberly (AUS) def HON, Priscilla (AUS) 64 36 64
[12] TODONI, Anca (ROU) def ROMERO GORMAZ, Leyre (ESP) 63 62
[15] RUSE, Elena-Gabriela (ROU) def. FRIEDSAM, Anna-Lena (GER) 36 63 64
[19] RIERA, Julia (ARG) def BULGARU, Miriam (ROU) 64 64
[20] CHWALINSKA, Maja (POL) def BENOIT, Marie (BEL) 61 36 61
[21] LEPCHENKO, Varvara (USA) def WATSON, Heather (GBR) 36 63 61
[23] LYS, Eva (GER) def RODIONOVA, Arina (AUS) 75 64
[25] WEI, Sijia (CHN) def KORPATSCH, Tamara (GER) 63 63
[27] FETT, Jana (CRO) def KRAUS, Sinja (AUT) 60 76 (11)
Other results (in alphabetical order)
AIAVA, Destanee (AUS) def UDVARDY, Panna (HUN) 64 61
CIRIC BAGARIC, Lucija (CRO) def [PR] BJORKLUND, Mirjam (SWE) 62 46 64
HIBINO, Nao (JPN) def MAKAROVA, Ekaterina (RUS) 63 67 (4) 61
JANICIJEVIC, Selena (FRA) def. BOLKVADZE, Mariam (GEO) 64 62
MONNET, Carole (FRA) def [WC] JAMRICHOVA, Renata (SVK) 76 (2) 61
SELEKHMETEVA, Oksana (RUS) def. [WC] SHARMA, Astra (AUS) 63 26 64
VICKERY, Sachia (USA) def ISHII, Sayaka (JPN) 76 (2) 64
ZIDANSEK, Tamara (SLO) def SERBAN, Raluka (CYP) 62 62
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