MOSCOW, Jan 20 Russian No. 1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova advances to the third round of the Open of the Australian Tennis Championship, which takes place on the courts of Melbourne. Pavlyuchenkova, seeded under the tenth number, beat the winner of the US Open-2011 Australian Samantha Stosur (wild card) in the second round with a score of 6:2, 6:2. The match lasted 1 hour 9 minutes. The 30-year-old Russian will compete with Romanian Sorana Kirstya in the third round. Pavlyuchenkova is ranked 11th in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking. In another match of the second round, another Russian woman, Lyudmila Samsonova, lost to the 31st seeded Czech Marketa Vondrousova — 2:6, 5:7.Other Australian Open match results Thursday:Clara Tauson (Denmark) — Anett Kontaveit (Estonia, 6th) — 6:2, 6:4; Daniel Collins (USA, 27th) — Ana Konyukh (Croatia) — 6 : 4, 6:3; Alize Cornet (France) — Garbine Muguruza (Spain, 3rd) — 6:3, 6:3; Iga Schwentek (Poland, 7th) — Rebecca Peterson (Sweden) — 6:2 , 6:2; Arina Sobolenko (Belarus, 2nd) — Wang Xinyu (China) — 1:6, 6:4, 6:2; Elise Mertens (Belgium, 19th) — Irina-Camellia Begu (Romania) — 6:3, 6:2.
