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Defending champ Stosur heads to third round of US Open

Defending champion Samantha Stosur moved to the third round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Edina Gallovits-Hall of Romania.

The seventh-seeded Stosur has lost a total of five games over her first two matches. Her latest win took exactly an hour and she has spent a total of 1 hour, 51 minutes on the court so far this week.

Stosur, eliminated in the first round at the Australian Open and second round at Wimbledon earlier this year, plays 31st-seeded Varvara Lepchenko in the third round.