Andrey Rublev beat David Ferrer in the starting match Australian Open

On Monday, in Australian Melbourne, matches of the main grid of the first Grand Slam series, the Australian Open Championship in the Tennisa Championship in the season, started.

The Russians in the first round of single discharges won three out of five matches. Andrei Rublev, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Daria Kasatkin started from victories. The struggle was completed by Mikhail Yuzhny and Ekaterina Makarova.

Rublev, sown in the tournament under the 30th number, defeated the Spaniard David Ferrer in five sets with a score of 7: 5, 6: 7 (6: 8), 6: 2, 6: 7 (6: 8), 6: 2. The meeting lasted three hours 51 minutes. The next opponent will be the winner of the match Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) - Yuki Bhambr (India).

For two hours 27 minutes on the Australian Open 2018, Mikhail Yuzhny played, as a result, yielding Uruguaytsa Pablo Kuevas. The 35 -year -old Russian failed to take a single set from the opponent - 6: 7 (7), 3: 6, 5: 7.

In the first circle of a female single discharge, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won a strong -willed victory over Ukrainian Katerina Kozlova - 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3, Daria Kasatkina defeated the Slovak Anna Karolina Schmidlova - 6: 0, 6: 3, and Ekaterina Makarova ended her tournament, yielding to Irina Kamelia in the run of Romania from Romania from Romania In account 6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 8.