Australian Open: Former junior world No 2 Shnaider scores first Grand Slam main draw win

Former junior world No 2 Diana Shnaider moved into the second round of the Australian Open by beating Slovak Kristina Kucova 7-6 (6), 7-5 at Melbourne Park on Monday.

Shnaider won three matches in qualifying to make it to the main draw in her first Grand Slam appearance.

The 18-year-old, already ranked No 105 in the WTA rankings, will face the winner of the match between Chinese Yue Yuan and Greek Maria Sakkari, the No 6 seed, in the second round.

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Australian Open (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 24.297.942, most recent results first):

• Marta Kostyuk beat Amanda Anisimova (28): 6-3, 6-4
• Olivia Gadecki (WC) beat Polina Kudermetova (Q): 7-5, 6-1
• Jessica Pegula (3) beat Jaqueline Cristian: 6-0, 6-1
• Coco Gauff (7) beat Katerina Siniakova: 6-1, 6-4
• Emma Raducanu beat Tamara Korpatsch: 6-3, 6-2
• Bianca Andreescu beat Marie Bouzkova (25): 6-2, 6-4
• Cristina Bucsa (Q) beat Eva Lys (Q): 2-6, 6-0, 6-2
• Tamara Zidansek vs. Ons Jabeur
• Viktoriya Tomova vs. Belinda Bencic
• Alison Riske-Amritraj vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Sloane Stephens vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
• Irina-Camelia Begu vs. Elizabeth Mandlik
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Claire Liu vs. Madison Brengle
• Mayar Sherif vs. Magda Linette
• Maryna Zanevska vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Shuai Zhang vs. Patricia Maria Tig
• Lucrezia Stefanini vs. Tatjana Maria
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Lucia Bronzetti vs. Laura Siegemund
• Petra Martic vs. Viktorija Golubic
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Donna Vekic vs. Oksana Selekhmeteva
• Lauren Davis vs. Danka Kovinic
• Anett Kontaveit vs. Julia Grabher
• Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Jaimee Fourlis
• Katherine Sebov vs. Caroline Garcia
• Katie Volynets vs. Evgeniya Rodina
• Xiyu Wang vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Kaia Kanepi vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Camila Giorgi
• Martina Trevisan vs. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
• Garbine Muguruza vs. Elise Mertens
• Arianne Hartono vs. Shelby Rogers
• Aryna Sabalenka vs. Tereza Martincova
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Alize Cornet
• Ysaline Bonaventure vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
• Diane Parry vs. Taylor Townsend
• Madison Keys vs. Anna Blinkova
• Iga Swiatek vs. Jule Niemeier
• Leolia Jeanjean vs. Nadia Podoroska
• Xinyu Wang vs. Storm Hunter
• Jil Teichmann vs. Harriet Dart
• Kaja Juvan vs. Selena Janicijevic
• Elena Rybakina vs. Elisabetta Cocciaretto
• Laura Pigossi vs. Catherine McNally
• Panna Udvardy vs. Camila Osorio
• Lin Zhu vs. Rebecca Marino
• Sofia Kenin vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Sara Bejlek
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Dalma Galfi
• Anna Bondar vs. Ana Bogdan
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Alison Van Uytvanck vs. Petra Kvitova
• Coco Vandeweghe vs. Anhelina Kalinina
• Talia Gibson vs. Clara Burel
• Brenda Fruhvirtova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Bernarda Pera vs. Moyuka Uchijima
• Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Kateryna Baindl
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Karolina Muchova
• Yue Yuan vs. Maria Sakkari
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Danielle Collins