Blinkova, ranked 57th in the world, defeated Spain’s Cristina Buksa (56th) 6:2, 6:4. Now her opponent will be last year’s Melbourne finalist and 2022 Wimbledon champion, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.
Overall, out of 15 of our tennis players who started in the main draw, 10 continued to struggle, which seems like a good indicator. However, we note that of the five Russian seeds, only one advanced to the next round: Daria Kasatkina (14). On Tuesday, Dasha, who lost in the final of the Australian Open in Adelaide the day before, was stronger than the American Python Stearns (48) by 6:2, 3:6, 6:2. In the second round, Kasatkina will face another American representative, 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens.
The leaders of national women’s tennis Lyudmila Samsonova (13th seed), Veronika Kudermetova (15th), Ekaterina Alexandrova (17th) and Anastasia Potapova (23rd) suffered quite unexpected defeats. Diana Schneider was also eliminated from the group. But then we hope that you will be able to follow the successes of Mirra Andreeva, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Elina Avanesyan, Anna Kalinskaya, Kamilla Rakhimova, as well as Maria Timofeeva, Alina Korneeva and Anastasia Zakharova, who survived the qualifications and presented a pleasant surprise in first place .
By the way, the world’s 47th racket player Mirra Andreeva congratulated us with another historic achievement. Mirra became the youngest tennis player (16 years and 261 days) after the American Cori Gauff, who managed to win at least one singles match in each of the four Grand Slams. And if we talk only about Russian statistics, Andreeva surpassed the result of the two-time main doubles champion Anna Kournikova.
In the men’s tournament of the current Australian Open, the favorites among Russian tennis players Daniil Medvedev (3), Andrey Rublev (5), Karen Khachanov (15) and Pavel Kotov won their matches, although not everything went well. Alexander Shevchenko and Roman Safiullin finished their performances. Furthermore, the latter’s defeat was quite offensive. In a dramatic 4-hour match, Safiullin (36th racket in the world), leading 2-0 in sets, finally lost to the Dutchman Tallon Grikspoor (31st) – 6:2, 6:3, 6:7 (3: 7). ), 4:6, 5:7.
On the night from Tuesday to Wednesday and early in the morning Moscow time, 10 of our tennis players will fight for access to the third round.
