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Americans Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff, Frances Tiafoe and Danielle Collins reached the second round in contrasting fashion at the Australian Open on Monday.Third-seeded Pegula overwhelmed Jaqueline Cristian of Romania 6-0, 6-1 while seventh-seeded Gauff overcame a second-set wobble to beat Katerina Siniakova 6-1, 6-4.Collins, the runner-up last year to Ash Barty and seeded 13th, battled a left knee injury while defeating Anna Kalinskaya 7-5, 5-7, 6-4, while Frances Tiafoe - the second top-seeded US man - beat Daniel Altmaier in four sets. Coco Gauff overcame a slight wobble in the second set to beat Katerina Siniakova in Australia Gauff has now set up a mouthwatering second-round tie against Britain's Emma Raducanu Frances Tiafoe, in a VERY bold outfit, beat Daniel Altmaier to book his spot in round two The flamboyant American dropped a set but was able to rally back and secure the victory RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next 'Devastated' Nick Kyrgios sensationally withdraws from the... Emma Raducanu opens her Australian Open campaign in fine... The INSANE amount of money Australian Open stars make for... Bizarre moment Rafael Nadal is forced to stop playing when a...
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Pegula and Gauff could meet in the semifinals while Collins could play No.
1 Iga Swiatek in the fourth round. A quarterfinalist in Melbourne in each of the past two years, Pegula needed just 59 minutes to get past the 161st-ranked Cristian, who was appearing in her third Grand Slam event.'Today is just one of those days everything was working,' said the American, who will play either Czech qualifier Brenda Fruhvirtova or Aliaksandra Sasnovich in the second round.'Always feels good when you win a match like that.
I think when those days come you just kind of take it and don´t complain and don´t critique. You kind of just move on to the next one.'Tiafoe, meanwhile, raced into a two-set lead, before dropping a tie-break against German Altmaier in his first-round match in the men's singles.The match threatened to turn in his opponent's favor in another tie-break in the fourth, but he battled through to win it 8-6 and seal the match.
He will play Chinese qualifier Juncheng Shang in the second round. Jessica Pegula, daughter of the Buffalo Bills' owners, also made it through in Melbourne Danielle Collins continued a brilliant day for the Americans in the women's singles competitionGauff, who reached her first Grand Slam singles final at the French Open last year, was given the honor of opening proceedings on Rod Laver Arena and dominated Siniakova in the first set.The Czech player led 4-2 in the second set but Gauff rallied and clinched victory on her seventh match point.'I was not expecting to open the tournament on Rod Laver,' Gauff said.
'I´m super-honored that the tournament chose me and Katerina. I´m really pleased with myself. Katerina´s a fighter, I knew she was going to fight for every point. I just stayed strong mentally.' Collins managed to battle through in three sets despite suffering with a left knee injuryGauff will now play former U.S.
Open champion Emma Raducanu after the British player shrugged off a bothersome left ankle issue to beat Tamara Korpatsch of Germany 6-3, 6-2.Collins required a medical timeout for a left knee issue early in the first set of her match with Kalinskaya but survived to win in just over three hours.
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