Australian Open: Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula and Jannik Sinner take pleasure in excellent begin in Melbourne

Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula of the USA, Italy’s Jannik Sinner and Emma Raducanu of Britain received off to an ideal begin on the Australian Open on Monday.

New Delhi ,UPDATED: Jan 16, 2023 08:43 IST

Coco Gauff stormed into second spherical after a straight-set win. (AP Photo)

By India Today Web Desk: American stars Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula, and Italy’s Jannik Sinner loved an ideal begin to their campaigns on the Australian Open 2023 on Monday.

The quantity seven seed Gauff secured a straight-set win over Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniakova 6-1, 6-4 on the Rod Laver Arena to storm into the second spherical.

Gauff, who’s taking part in her fourth Australian Open, clinched the primary set in simply 22 minutes. Siniakova challenged Gauff within the second set after profitable the longest rally of the match -22 strokes – and broke Gauff to steer 4-2.

However, Gauff regained her momentum and wrapped up the match in a single hour and quarter-hour. Gauff will face former US Open winner Emma Raducanu in her second-round match. Raducanu edged previous Tamara Korpatsch in straight units 6-3, 6-2.

“Really pleased with myself,” Gauff stated. “Katerina is a fighter I knew she was going to fight until the last point and she proved that today. I’m glad I stayed mentally right there.”

America’s Jessica Pegula additionally reached the second spherical after ruthlessly defeating Jaqueline Cristian in slightly below an hour, 6-0, 6-1. Pegula is taken into account one of many favourites to achieve the last-16 stage, having surprised world primary Iga Swiatek within the United Cup semi-final just lately.

Meanwhile, Italy’s Jannik Sinner received off to an ideal begin on the Australian Open. The 21-year-old, who’s aiming to return to his profitable methods, breezed previous Kyle Edmund in straight units to clinch a 6-4, 6-0, 6-2 win in underneath two hours.

“I think I played very solid today,” Sinner stated in his post-match interview. “I had some difficult times to finish it off, but I think my level was very good today.”

Sinner has now prolonged his head-to-head file towards Edmund to 2-0. The Italian needed to save 5 of six break factors – two within the last sport – to progress to the second spherical.

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Jan 16, 2023