Emma Raducanu shrugged off damage concern to beat Tamara Korpatsch 6-3, 6-2 within the Australian Open first spherical on Monday.
The consequence comes 11 days after Raducanu left the courtroom in tears after retiring from her spherical of 16 match on the ASB Traditional with an ankle damage. She wore strapping round her left ankle throughout her win over Korpatsch.
“Every thing I’ve carried out has been fairly managed the final week,” she mentioned.
“So I needed to check it out in an actual match, with the unpredictability and simply getting used to it at first. It felt good. it is there and if something, it sort of alleviates any strain.
“That is since you’re, like, I’ve carried out so nicely to get myself onto the courtroom, and my staff has carried out so nicely. It is an important achievement for all of us.”
Raducanu, 20, will face 18-year-old World No. 7 Coco Gauff within the second spherical.
Elsewhere on Monday, Jack Draper was knocked out of the match by World No. 2 Rafael Nadal.
After being edged 7-5 within the first set, Draper rallied to win the next set 6-2. Nevertheless, the 21-year-old couldn’t stop an onslaught which noticed the Spaniard spherical off the sport with a 6-4, 6-1 restoration.
“I performed one of many hardest attainable opponents within the first spherical,” Nadal mentioned.
“He’s younger, he has energy and has an important future forward. We are going to see him play for a few years forward.”
Cameron Norrie defeated Luca van Assche in straight units to be the primary Brit to enter the second spherical within the males’s draw.
Norrie, British No. 1, edged the primary set 7-6 (3) earlier than cruising the following two 6-0, 6-3 to arrange a tie towards both Thiago Monteiro or Fixed Lestienne.
Earlier on Monday, Kyle Edmund suffered a 6-4, 6-0, 6-2 defeat to Italian Jannik Sinner whereas Harriet Dart was crushed 7-5, 6-1 by Jil Teichmann.