Australian Open Results

Thursday

At Melbourne Park

Melbourne, Australia

Purse: AUD111,500,000

Surface: Hardcourt outdoor

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (AP) _ Results Thursday from Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses):

Men’s Singles

Second Round

Jakub Mensik (16), Czechia, def. Rafael Jodar, Spain, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.

Karen Khachanov (15), Russia, def. Nishesh Basavareddy, United States, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3.

Valentin Vacherot (30), Monaco, def. Rinky Hijikata, Australia, 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Luciano Darderi (22), Italy, def. Sebastian Baez, Argentina, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Women’s Singles

Second Round

Madison Keys (9), United States, def. Ashlyn Krueger, United States, 6-1, 7-5.

Jessica Pegula (6), United States, def. McCartney Kessler, United States, 6-0, 6-2.

Oksana Selekhmeteva, Russia, def. Paula Badosa (25), Spain, 6-4, 6-4.

Karolina Pliskova, Czechia, def. Janice Tjen, Indonesia, 6-4, 6-4.

Men’s Doubles

First Round

Marcus Willis, Britain, and Jakub Paul, Switzerland, def. Evan King, United States, and John Peers (15), Australia, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Vasil Kirkov, United States, and Bart Stevens, Netherlands, def. Gonzalo Escobar, Ecuador, and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, Mexico, 6-1, 6-4.

Hendrik Jebens, Germany, and Ray Ho, Taiwan, def. Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori (7), Italy, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (2), 6-4.

Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Marcelo Arevalo (4), El Salvador, def. Tomislav Brkic and Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 6-2, 6-3.

Women’s Doubles

First Round

Vera Zvonareva, Russia, and Ena Shibahara, Japan, def. Liudmila Samsonova and Diana Shnaider (10), Russia, 7-6 (4), 6-1.

Kimberly Birrell and Talia Gibson, Australia, def. Momoko Kobori and Ayano Shimizu, Japan, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, and Anna Danilina (7), Kazakhstan, def. Quinn Gleason, United States, and Elena Pridankina, Russia, 7-5, 4-6, 6-0.

Anna Blinkova and Kamilla Rakhimova, Russia, def. Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Xinyu Jiang (14), China, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (1).

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