17-year-old Mirra Andreeva and 20-year-old Diana Schneider advanced to the second round in doubles at the Australian Open.
In the first round, Russian athletes won a crushing victory against Italian Angelina Moratelli and Polish Katarzyna Piter. The match, which lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes, ended with two sets with scores of 7:5 and 6:1.
During this time, Andreeva and Schneider completed two serves, committed three double faults and converted four break points. Their opponents had one ace, six double faults and four break points.
To advance to the next round of the tournament, the Russians will compete with the winners of the match between Yasmine Paolini / Sara Errani (Italy) and Priscilla Hong / Daria Saville (Australia).
Andreeva and Schneider paired up at the 2024 Summer Olympics and managed to reach the final of the tournament, where they lost to Italian Errani and Paolini. The medals won by the tennis players were the only medals won by Russian athletes at the Olympics.
Previously Russian tennis player starry Just before the start of the match at the Australian Open.
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Source: Gazeta
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