The Argentine tennis player defeated the Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomona 6-2 and 6-4.
Julia Riera139 in the world ranking, advanced this Tuesday in Australia to the second round of the WTA500 in Brisbane, defeating Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomona (80) 6-2 and 6-4.
The 21-year-old from Pergamin, who for the first time qualified for the main draw of a competition of this category, will play in the next round against the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova (21), 29, who has not yet -debut. .
Riera added a WTA 125 title, when in Montevideo she defeated her compatriot María Lourdes Carlé 7-6 (7-5 in-tie-break 7-5 and 7-5).
Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, seeded number one and second in the WTA rankings, will debut in the second round against Italian Lucia Bronzetti (52) who just defeated American Ashlyn Krueger (78) 6-4 and 7-5.
It should be noted that in the main draw, players such as Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (2nd), Kazakh Elena Rybakina (4th), Latvian Jelena Ostapenko (13th) and Japanese Naomi Osaka.
Naomi Osaka returns with a victory
Fifteen months after the Japanese player left the courts Naomi Osaka, former world number one, returned to competition at the Brisbane tournament with a victory over German Tamara Korpatsch that took her into the second round. The 26-year-old Japanese player, who holds seven titles, including two Australian Opens and as many in the United States, defeated German Tamara Korpatsch on her return to professional tennis, which she put aside to have a child in July. Osaka wins 6-3 and 7-6(9).
Osaka, taking the court for the first time since the 2022 Pan Pacific Open, offered a good level of play. She finished the match with 36 winning points and 21 unforced errors to reach the second round, where she will play Czech Karolina Pliskova, sixteenth seed.
Australian Daria Saville also passed the first round, clearly winning against Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska (6-0 and 6-4). In the second round she will face eleventh seed, Russian Anastasia Potapova.
Source: Tycsports
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