Australian Open 2023 starts on Monday, January 16, and on the first day, two athletes from Romania will perform: Ana Bohdan and Jacqueline Christian. The women’s singles draw in Melbourne will feature plenty of exciting matches from day one.

*Australian Open 2023 will be broadcast live on Eurosport and highlights will be on LiveBlog on HotNews.ro.

Ana Bohdan and Jacqueline Christian will play on the first day of the Australian Open 2023

Jacqueline Christian will have the honor of playing her first match on the Margaret Court Arena at this edition of the Australian Open. Our athlete will face the third favorite from Melbourne, Jessica Pegula.

Ranked 143rd in the world, Jacqueline has never faced Pegula in a women’s race.

On court 8, a match between Anna Bohdan (61 WTA) and Hungarian Anna Bondar (79 WTA) will take place.

The fight will be the third in this arena, after Polina Kudermetova against Olivia Gadeki and Mikael Imer against Yoshihito Nishioka. The match could start sometime after 05:30 (Romanian time).

Bohdan and Bondar met only once: in Istanbul, in 2019, on clay, and our player won in three sets with a score of 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Exciting women’s matches on the first day of competition at the Australian Open 2023

Bianca Andreescu (42 WTA) – Marie Buzkova (favorite 25) / time 02:00

Anna Kalinska (64 WTA) – Daniel Collins (favorite 13) / time 02:00

Marta Kostyuk (57 WTA) – Amanda Anisimova (28 favorite) / time 02:00

Emma Reducanu (75 WTA) – Tamara Korpach (74 WTA) / time 02:00

Sofia Kenin (280 WTA) – Victoria Azarenka (favorite 24) / approximately 05:30

Dayana Yastremska (99 WTA) – Jelena Ostapenko (favorite 17) / approximately 05:30

Katie McNally (95 WTA) – Paula Badosa (10 favourites) / approx 06:30

Elisabetta Cocciaretto (67 WTA) – Olena Rybakina (favorite 22) / approximately 07:30

Jules Niemeyer (68 WTA) – Iga Sviatek (favorite 1) / time 10:00

Anna Blinkova (72 WTA) – Madison Keys (favorite 9) / from 12:00.

Australian Open 2023 will be held from January 16 to 29. The champions of the title were Ashley Barty (now retired from sports) and Rafael Nadal.

The Australian Open has been held at Melbourne Park since 1988 (this will be the 55th edition of the Open Era) and the main arenas are:

Rod Laver Arena – 14,820 seats

John Cain Arena – 10,300 seats

Margaret Court Arena – 7500 seats

Kia Arena – 5000 seats.

Australian Open 2023 prizes in euros

Champion ~ 1.89 million euros

Finalist ~ 1.03 million euros

Semi-final ~ €587,000

Apartments ~ 352,400 euros

Optimal ~ 338,250 euros

III round ~ 214,700 euros

II round ~ 100,800 euros

I round ~ 67,400 euros.

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