Australian Open: Rakhimova defeats Bektas, is first main draw match winner at 2024 Australian Open

Russian Kamilla Rakhimova reached the second round of the Australian Open by beating American Emina Bektas 6-4, 6-4 at Melbourne Park on Sunday night.

The Russian, ranked 93, was the first player to win a main draw match at this year’s Australian Open.

The victory marks Rakhimova’s first win at the Australian Open in her second main draw appearance. She won 90 percent (27 of 30) of her first serve points and cracked 25 winners against 16 unforced errors.

Rakhimova will face the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Diane Parry and Chinese Xinyu Wang, the No 30 seed, next.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other first-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):

• Rebecca Marino vs. Jessica Pegula
• Aleksandra Krunic vs. Clara Burel
• Renata Zarazua vs. Martina Trevisan
• Lin Zhu vs. Oceane Dodin
• Yafan Wang vs. Sorana Cirstea
• Emma Raducanu vs. Shelby Rogers
• Katie Boulter vs. Yue Yuan
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Ashlyn Krueger
• Peyton Stearns vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Sloane Stephens vs. Olivia Gadecki
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Anna Blinkova
• Elena Rybakina vs. Karolina Pliskova
• Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Lulu Sun
• Emma Navarro vs. Xiyu Wang
• Camila Giorgi vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Greet Minnen vs. Clara Tauson
• Petra Martic vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Danielle Collins vs. Angelique Kerber
• Iga Swiatek vs. Sofia Kenin
• Caroline Garcia vs. Naomi Osaka
• Ons Jabeur vs. Yulia Starodubtseva
• Taylor Townsend vs. Paula Badosa
• Mirra Andreeva vs. Bernarda Pera
• Linda Fruhvirtova vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Katie Volynets
• Anhelina Kalinina vs. Arantxa Rus
• Viktorija Golubic vs. Veronika Kudermetova
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Anastasia Zakharova
• Magdalena Frech vs. Daria Saville
• Mayar Sherif vs. Elise Mertens
• Jaqueline Cristian vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Donna Vekic
• Rebeka Masarova vs. Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Claire Liu
• Diana Shnaider vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Tatjana Maria vs. Camila Osorio
• Fiona Ferro vs. Mccartney Kessler
• Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Laura Siegemund
• Kaja Juvan vs. Anastasia Potapova
• Anna Karolina Schmiedlova vs. Coco Gauff
• Nadia Podoroska vs. Tamara Zidansek
• Storm Hunter vs. Sara Errani
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Marketa Vondrousova
• Yanina Wickmayer vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Kayla Day vs. Viktoriya Tomova
• Elina Svitolina vs. Taylah Preston
• Linda Noskova vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Ella Seidel vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Magda Linette vs. Caroline Wozniacki
• Caroline Dolehide vs. Leolia Jeanjean
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Amanda Anisimova
• Diane Parry vs. Xinyu Wang
• Sara Sorribes Tormo vs. Alina Korneeva
• Ana Bogdan vs. Brenda Fruhvirtova
• Maria Sakkari vs. Nao Hibino
• Tamara Korpatsch vs. Jodie Burrage
• Alycia Parks vs. Daria Snigur
• Alize Cornet vs. Maria Timofeeva
• Zhuoxuan Bai vs. Elina Avanesyan
• Mai Hontama vs. Barbora Krejcikova: sunday
• Lesia Tsurenko vs. Lucia Bronzetti: sunday
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Sara Bejlek: sunday