ATP/WTA
Australian Open
MELBOURNE -- Results Thursday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (seedings in parentheses):
Singles
Men's second round
Kei Nishikori (8), Japan, def. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 6-3, 7-6 (6), 5-7, 5-7, 7-6 (7).
Women's second round
Camila Giorgi (27), Italy, def. Iga Swiatek, Poland, 6-2, 6-0.
Karolina Pliskova (7), Czech Republic, def. Madison Brengle, United States, 4-6, 6-1, 6-0.
Su-Wei Hsieh (28), Taiwan, def. Laura Siegemund, Germany, 6-3, 6-4.
Qiang Wang (21), China, def. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-2, 6-3.
Anastasija Sevastova (13), Latvia, def. Bianca Vanessa Andreescu, Canada, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.
Elise Mertens (12), Belgium, def. Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, 6-1, 7-5.
Madison Keys (17), United States, def. Anastasia Potapova, Russia, 6-3, 6-4.
Elina Svitolina (6), Ukraine, def. Viktoria Kuzmova, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-1.
Doubles
Men's first round
Oliver Marach, Austria and Mate Pavic (1), Croatia, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy and Simone Bolelli, Italy, 7-5, 6-7 (7), 6-0.
Bruno Soares, Brazil and Jamie Murray (3), Britain, def. Roman Jebavy, Czech Republic and Andres Molteni, Argentina, 6-4, 7-6 (11).
Ken Skupski, Britain and Neal Skupski, Britain, def. James Duckworth, Australia and Jordan Thompson, Australia, 6-3, 6-4.
Rajeev Ram, United States and Joe Salisbury (11), Britain, def. Hans Podlipnik, Chile and Guido Pella, Argentina, 6-0, 6-4.
Cameron Norrie, Britain and Taylor Fritz, United States, def. Mirza Basic, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 7-6 (7), 7-5.
Jack Sock, United States and Jack Withrow, United States, def. Robert Farah, Colombia and Juan Sebastian Cabal (2), Colombia, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-4.
Women's first round
Sabrina Santamaria, United States and Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, def. Donna Vekic, Croatia and Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, 6-3, 6-1.
Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic and Marketa Vondrousova, Czech Republic, def. Yifan Xu, China and Gabriela Dabrowski (3), Canada, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
Alison Bai, Australia and Zoe Hives, Australia, def. Evgeniya Rodina, Russia and Luksika Kumkhum, Thailand, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Sorana Cirstea, Romania and Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, def. Ying-Ying Duan, China and Vera Lapko, Belarus, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (7).
Latisha Chan, Taiwan and Hao-Ching Chan (7), Taiwan, def. Arina Rodionova, Australia and Ellen Perez, Australia, 6-3, 7-5.
Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus and Taylor Townsend, United States, def. Alison van Uytvanck, Belgium and Alexa Guarachi Mathison, Chile, 7-6 (3), 6-2.
Alison Riske, United States and Jennifer Brady, United States, def. Astra Sharma, Australia and Isabelle Wallace, Australia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenia and Raquel Atawo (9), United States, def. Danielle Rose Collins, United States and Amanda Anisimova, United States, 6-1, 6-3.
Kristina Mladenovic, France and Timea Babos (2), Hungary, def. Galina Voskoboeva, Kazakhstan and Raluca-Ioana Olaru, Romania, 6-0, 6-3.
Sports on 01/17/2019