MOSCOW, Jan 18 Britain's Emma Raducanou defeated America's Sloane Stephens in the first match round of the Grand Slam — the Australian Open (Australian Open). The meeting ended with a score of 6:0, 2:6, 6:1 in favor of the current winner of the US Open. The 19-year-old Briton performs for the first time in the main draw of the Australian Open. Stevens won the US Open in 2017, four years earlier she reached the semi-finals of the tournament in Australia (the best achievement in this tournament). In the second round, 17th seeded Radukan will face the representative of Montenegro Danka Kovinic.
