In the first round of the tournament Kostiuk sensationally broke the first racket of China Peng Shuai, with a score of 6: 2, 6: 2.

On the court tennis players came out with bandaged legs: the Ukrainian had an ankle, and a Chinese woman - a knee. Kostyuk entered the game with two consecutive won games, but Peng managed to equalize the score. After doing a reverse break, Martha took a medical timeout, during which she was strengthened on her leg.

After that, Kiev won two more games, and then filed on the set at the first attempt.

In the second set Kostyuk twice took the serve of the opponent, losing Shuai fourteen draws.

Note that Martha, who is the youngest participant of the tournament this year, became the first tennis player of 2002, who won the match in the main grid of the Grand Slam tournament.

Further, the 15-year-old Ukrainian woman will play against the owner of wild card Olivia Rogovskaya from Australia, who in her opening match defeated compatriot Jamie Fourlis.

As previously reported in "URA-Inform", Ukrainian tennis player Martha Kostyuk will participate in the open tennis championship in Australia. For the 15-year-old Ukrainian woman this is the first tournament of this scale, the girl will perform at the championship for adults. Annually, such an invitation is given to the current champion among players under 18 years of age.