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Siegemund overcame deficits in the second and
third sets to win the match in two hours, 53 minutes.
Sixth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia overcame a first-set
misstep to notch a 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 win over Sorana Cirstea of
Romania. Eighth-seeded Veronika Kudermetova of Russia posted a
6-2, 7-5 victory over Ashlyn Krueger, while Russians Ekaterina
Alexandrova and Daria Kasatkina, Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia and
Czech Katerina Siniakova also advanced to the second round.
Hobart Invitational
Sixth-seeded Sofia Kenin posted a 6-3, 6-3 win over Greet Minnen
of Belgium in opening-round action in Australia.
No. 4 seed Xinyu Wang of China recorded a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over
Australian Olivia Gadecki while fifth-seeded Marie Bouzkova of
the Czech Republic notched a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Viktorija
Golubic of Switzerland.
Other first-round winners were ninth-seeded Tatjana Maria,
China's Yue Yuan, Poland's Magdalena Frech, Kazakhstan's Yulia
Putintseva, Caroline Dolehide and Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova.
--Field Level Media
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