Tennis: Australian Open Results

MELBOURNE, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Jan, 2017 ) - results from the Australian Open on Wednesday (x denotes seeding): Men's singles 2nd rd Malek Jaziri (TUN) bt Alexander Bublik (KAZ) 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 Lukas Lacko (SVK) bt Dudi Sela (ISR) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 Kei Nishikori (JPN x5) bt Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x12) bt Dusan Lajovic (SRB) 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 Women's singles 2nd rd Angelique Kerber (GER x1) bt Carina Witthoeft (GER) 6-2, 6-7 (3/7), 6-2 Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) bt Irina Begu (ROM x27) 6-4, 7-6 (10/8) Alison Riske (USA) bt Zhang Shuai (CHN x20) 7-6 (9/7), 4-6, 6-1 Duan Yingying (CHN) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 6-1, 3-6, 10-8 Venus Williams (USA x13) bt Stefanie Voegele (SUI) 6-3, 6-2 Elina Svitolina (UKR x11) bt Julia Boserup (USA) 6-4, 6-1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x24) bt Natalia Vikhlyantseva (RUS) 6-2, 6-2 Jelena Jankovic (SRB) bt Julia Goerges (GER) 6-3, 6-4 Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x8) bt Jaimee Fourlis (AUS) 6-2, 6-1