Ashleigh Barty beat Lesia Tsurenko in the first round of the Australian Open

the First racket of the world, Australian tennis player Ashleigh Barty in the first round of the Australian Open in three sets in one hour and 38 minutes defeated the representative of Ukraine Lesya Tsurenko– 5:7, 6:1, 6:1.

Barty ten times filed through, committed one double fault and has implemented seven break points out of seven, but Tsurenko, which occupies 120-e a place in rating WTA, one ACE, nine double faults and implemented three breaks from seven.

So, Barty reached the second round of the tournament Australian Open, where they will play the winner of the confrontation between Polona hercog (Slovenia, 48) – Rebecca Peterson (Sweden, 44).