By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Wednesday, January 15, 2025
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Forward thinking helped Elena Rybakina reach a milestone moment in Melbourne today.
Rybakina rolled through the first seven games sparking a 6-0, 6-3 dismissal of 17-year-old American Iva Jovic to charge into the Australian Open third round.
It is Rybakina’s 50th Grand Slam main-draw match win and it took her only 80 minutes to find the finish line against the youngest woman in the singles field.
“I started really well and I think for her she need a bit more time to get used to the speed,” Rybakina said afterward. “I started really well and struggled a bit in the second set.
“But pretty happy to get through another one.”
The sixth-seeded Rybakina joined compatriot Yulia Putintseva as the second woman from Kazakhstan to reach the AO third round. No. 24-seeded Putintseva defeated Shuai Zhang 6-2, 6-1…
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