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):
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.
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.
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).