The 51st racket of the world Yulia Putintseva won a confident victory over the American Claire Lew, who occupies the 59th line of the world ranking in the first round of the WTA 250 Hobart International tournament, El.kz reports.
The match ended with a score of 6:2, 6:4.
During the match, which lasted 1 hour and 34 minutes, Putintseva made three aces and converted 3 break points, while never losing in games on her serve.
In Adelaide, at the WTA 500 tournament, Elena Rybakina, paired with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first round with a score of 7:6 (7:5), 6:2 beat Angelina Gabueva from Russia and Anu Bogdan from Romania.