MELBOURNE, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Following are the women's singles results from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday (prefix number denotes seeding):

First Round

28-Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, bt Astra Sharma, Australia, 6-0, 6-2

Iga Swiatek, Poland, bt Timea Babos, Hungary, 6-3, 6-2

30-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, bt Nina Stojanovic, Serbia, 6-1, 7-5

Taylor Townsend, United States, bt Jessica Pegula, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (5)

Heather Watson, Britain, bt Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1

Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, bt Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, 2-6, 6-1, 6-1

Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, bt 11-Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (6)

16-Elise Mertens, Belgium, bt Danka Kovinic, Montenegro, 6-2, 6-0

Second Round

27-Wang Qiang, China, bt Fiona Ferro, France, 6-1, 6-2

Zhang Shuai, China, bt Caty McNally, United States, 6-2, 6-4

3-Osaka Naomi, Japan, bt Zheng Saisai, China, 6-2, 6-4

18-Alison Riske, United States, bt Zhu Lin, China, 6-3, 6-1

14-Sofia Kenin, United States, bt Ann Li, United States, 6-1, 6-3

7-Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, bt Paula Badosa, Spain, 7-5, 7-5

Julia Goerges, Germany, bt 13-Petra Martic, Croatia, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5

25-Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, bt Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-3

1-Ashleigh Barty, Australia, bt Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 6-1, 6-4

Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, bt Caroline Garcia, France, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3

Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, bt 23-Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, 7-5, 7-5

29-Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan, bt Greet Minnen, Belgium, 6-3, 6-4

Cori Gauff, United States, bt Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5

22-Maria Sakkari, Greece, bt Hibino Nao, Japan, 7-6 (4), 6-4