Aussie Open Day 2 by the numbers: Cancelled matches, Birrell's upset and more

The second day of main-draw action at the 2023 Australian Open saw delays for both extreme heat and torrential rain -- but plenty of players dodged the vagaries of the weather to advance to the second round. Here are the key numbers as first-round action continued.

Day 2 from the Australian Open

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8 - First-round matches that were called off for the day without play beginning: No.8 seed Daria Kasatkina

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View Profile , No.23 seed Zhang Shuai vs. Patricia Maria Tig, Mayar Sherif

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4 - First-round matches that were started, but not finished due to late evening rain. Donna Vekic

View Profile leads qualifier Oksana Selekhmeteva 6-2, 2-6, 6-6 and 5-1 in the match tiebreak, having served for the match at 6-5; Lauren Davis leads Danka Kovinic 1-6, 7-5, 4-1; Claire Liu leads Madison Brengle 4-2; and Alison Riske-Amritraj leads Marketa Vondrousova

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2 - Matches that lasted 2 hours and 31 minutes, the joint-longest of the day. Moreover, they featured near-identical scorelines: wild card Kimberly Birrell

View Profile upset No.31 seed Kaia Kanepi 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-1 and No.26 seed Elise Mertens

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52 - Minutes needed for No.19 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova

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Highlights: Sabalenka d. Martincova | Mertens d. Muguruza | Townsend d. Parry | Fernandez d. Cornet | Pliskova d. Wang Xiyu | L.Fruhvirtova d. Fourlis | Garcia d. Sebov | Bencic d. Tomova | Jabeur d. Zidansek | Martic d. Golubic | Putintseva d. Cirstea

0-3 - Leylah Fernandez

View Profile 's Australian Open record prior to her 7-5, 6-2 win over Alizé Cornet today. The 20-year-old Canadian had lost in the first round to Lauren Davis in 2020, Elise Mertens

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3 - Number of career Top 30 victories by Kimberly Birrell

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View Profile in the 2019 Brisbane first round and Donna Vekic

View Profile in the 2019 Australian Open second round. Birrell, 24, raised her ranking from No.734 to No.167 in 2022 after returning from injury; she received the wild card freed up by Venus Williams' withdrawal.

3 - Years since Anna Karolina Schmiedlova last scored a Top 30 win. The Slovak qualifier, a former World No.26, upset No.21 seed Martina Trevisan 6-3, 6-2 for her first victory over an opponent in that echelon since beating Victoria Azarenka

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17 - Age of Linda Fruhvirtova, the youngest player remaining in the draw. The Czech, who won her first Hologic WTA Tour title in Chennai last September, reached the second round of her second consecutive major with a 6-0, 6-4 win over wild card Jaimee Fourlis.

3 - Consecutive wins for Yulia Putintseva

View Profile over Sorana Cirstea after her 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 win today. Putintseva has not lost to the Romanian since the 2017 Nürnberg quarterfinals, and leads the overall head-to-head 4-2.

7 - Points lost on serve by Taylor Townsend during her 6-1, 6-1 defeat of Diane Parry. After losing the first game of the match, Townsend won 11 straight games before Parry got on the board again.

8 - Matches that Garbiñe Muguruza has lost from a set up in the past 12 months: to Veronika Kudermetova

View Profile in Dubai, Alison Riske-Amritraj in Indian Wells, Yulia Putintseva

View Profile in Rome, Martina Trevisan in Rabat, Kaia Kanepi at Roland Garros, Petra Kvitova at the US Open, Bianca Andreescu at Adelaide 1 and Elise Mertens

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0 - Tamara Zidansek's number of Top 50 wins since her run to the 2021 Roland Garros semifinals. The Slovenian came within a set of rectifying this against No.2 seed Ons Jabeur

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