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Pera dropped the opening set and trailed 3-1 in
the third set before racing past Badosa, a wild-card entry
playing for the first time since Wimbledon due to a stress
fracture in her back.
Qualifiers Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Anna Kalinskaya of
Russia both ousted top-five seeds. Pavlyuchenkova defeated No. 5
Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil 6-3, 6-4, and Kalinskaya outlasted
No. 4 Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic 7-5, 3-6, 7-5.
Other winners included Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk, Spain's Cristina
Bucsa and Romania's Ana Bogdan.
Hobart Invitational
Top-seeded Elise Mertens of Belgium coasted to a 6-2, 6-3
victory against Danielle Collins in opening-round action in
Australia.
No. 3 seed Lin Zhu of China and No. 8 Varvara Gracheva of France
also advanced. Zhu was a 7-5, 6-1 winner against Italy's Lucia
Bronzetti and Gracheva held off Peyton Stearns 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-5
despite seven double faults.
Other first-round winners were Australian wild-card entry Daria
Saville and Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, who will face
Mertens next.
--Field Level Media
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