Last year's finalist and world number one Arina Sabaljenka advanced to the second round of the Australian Open, defeating Frenchwoman Sarah Rakatamanga - 6:4, 6:1.
And 45-year-old Venus Williams, the oldest participant in the history of the Ozzy Open, was on the verge of a sensation, but Olga Danilović saved herself from elimination.
Serbian tennis player Danilović celebrated with a major turnaround, as she was losing 4:0 in the third set, but then the celebrated American ran out of energy - 6:7, 6:3, 6:4.
Italian Jasmine Paolini was better than Belarusian Alexandra Sasnovich - 6:1, 6:2. Ukrainian Elina Svitolina defeated Spaniard Kristina Buksa - 6:4, 6:1.
And the 10th ranked tennis player in the world, Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik, eliminated American Jenson Brooksby in three identical sets, each ending 6:4, in Melbourne.
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