MOSCOW, January 19 Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina reached the third round of the Open Championship Australia (Australian Open) after the refusal of the Frenchwoman Armoni Tan to continue the match due to injury. The meeting was interrupted in the third set with a score of 6:3, 5:7, 5:1 in favor of Svitolina, seeded at the tournament under the 15th number. The Frenchwoman withdrew due to a calf injury and left the court in a wheelchair. The match lasted 2 hours and 7 minutes. In the third round, Svitolina will play with the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, who has the 24th seed, who defeated the Swiss Jill Taichman in the second round (6:1, 6:2).
