Aleksandrova started with a victory in the Open championship of Australia

Russian tennis player Ekaterina Alexandrova in the first round of the Australian Open, which takes place in Melbourne, played with Gil Belen Teichman from Switzerland. To determine the winner, the opponent had to spend all three sets. According to their result in the next round broke Alexandrov– 6:4, 4:6, 6:2.

the Meeting between them lasted 2 hours and 10 minutes. In the next round the Russian will face the winner of the match between Estonia’s Kaia Kaneli and Krejcikova Barbora from the Czech Republic, which will be out on court Australian Open January 20 later.

Earlier in the tournament by another representative of Russia Anna Kalinskaya are unable to overcome the barrier of the first round, losing to the Chinese player Zheng Saisai in two games with the score 3:6, 2:6.