Australia’s Ajla Tomljanović has misplaced a tense three-set match to world quantity 20 Karolína Muchová on the Brisbane Worldwide.
Tomljanović went down within the high-quality encounter 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7/5) towards Muchová, who peaked at quantity eight on the planet in 2023.
Czechia’s Muchová, who reached the 2023 French Open remaining, turned the screws after dropping the primary set to Tomljanović, taking the second amid a six-game streak.
Tomljanović discovered a brand new degree of her personal within the third set, breaking serve to go clear.
However the three-time main singles quarterfinalist misplaced the following 4 straight video games and confronted a match level.
She saved the match level and broke again to drive a tiebreak, the place Muchová produced an excellent overhead and a sequence of forehand winners to seal the win in two hours and 38 minutes.
Within the males’s draw, Rinky Hijikata was the one Australian to succeed in the second spherical after defeating compatriot Adam Walton.
Qualifier Hijikata, who shares coach Mark Draper with Walton, raced by their match on Tuesday night time, profitable 6-3, 6-2 in a single hour and 12 minutes.
It ended a run of 5 losses for Australian males in Brisbane this week.
Aleksandar Vukic, James Duckworth, Alexei Popyrin, Dane Sweeny and Nick Kyrgios all misplaced their first-round matches on the Australian Open lead-in occasion.
Australia’s Emerson Jones, Kimberly Birrell and Olivia Gadecki will play their second-round matches within the ladies’s draw on Wednesday.
AAP
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