Dinara Safina won the first victory in the season

The ex-first racket of the world, Russian Dinara Safina won the first victory this season, this happened at the tournament in Kuala Lumpur, whose prize fund is 220 thousand dollars.

On Tuesday, the 24-year-old Muscovite, who now takes 113th place in the world ranking, defeated Han Xinyun, who takes 125th place in the ranking, 6: 2, 6: 0 in the starting match of the competition. Dinara made 7 breaks in this game and missed her feed twice.

Prior to this, Safina took part in three tournaments in 2011 - Auckland, Hobart and on Australian Open - and she lost to all in the first round, reminds RIA Novosti .

In the second round, at the tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Safina will play with Czech Lucia Shafarzhova, who was sown under the 5th number and previously defeated the representative of Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas.