The Australian adventure stops in the first round for Clara Burel, junior world champion in 2018. But it is already a first victory for the 19-year-old Rennaise, sparkling at the last Roland-Garros. After a good qualification for the main draw of theOpen d’Australie won in Doha (Qatar), Clara Burel did not inherit an easy draw with the Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck (67e worldwide) for its premiere in Melbourne (Australia).
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But it came close to the hope of women’s tennis. After a very nice first round pocketed 6-4, the French ended up faltering in the other two sets (6-3, 6-4) under the strikes of the Belgian, quarter-finalist at Roland Garros against Timea Bacsinszky in 2015. Alison Van Uytvanck will face Kazakhe Yulia Putintseva (28e).
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