The organizers of the Australian Open 2023 announced the schedule for Thursday, in which Iryna Begu will play in the second round of the Grand Slam in Melbourne. Also, on January 19, four Romanian athletes will play in doubles.

Iryna Begu vs Laura Siegemund in the second round of the Australian Open

• Field 8
  

In the third match of the day at this arena Iryna Begu (WTA 30, favorite 27) will make it Laura Siegemund (158 WTA). The game will not start before time 05:30 (Romanian time).

So far, Iryna and Laura have had four fights, the score is 3:1 in favor of the German. Begu won in 2015 in Charleston. On the other hand, Siegmund won in Indian Wells (2016), Bucharest (2019) and Palermo (2020).

Jacqueline Christian, Monica Niculescu, Ana Bohdan and Gabriela Ruse debut in doubles

• Earth 15

Jacqueline Christian/Tamara Korpatsch (Germany) vs Monica Niculescu/Viktoria Golubich (Switzerland) – the time is 02:00

• Earth 17

Ana Bohdan/Tayana Maria (Germany) vs. Olivia Hadecki/Priscilla Hone (Australia) – approx. 05:00

Gabriela Ruse/Marta Kostyuk (Ukraine) vs. Danielle Collins/Heather Watson (USA/Great Britain) – approx. 06:30.

Australian Open 2023, the most interesting matches of Thursday

• Women’s painting

Aryna Sabalenko (favourite 5) vs. Shelby Rogers – 2:00

Katie Volynets vs Veronika Kudermetova (9) – 02:00

Kateryna Alexandrova (19) – Taylor Townsend – 02:00

Lauren Davies vs Elise Mertens (26) – approx 03:30

Annette Kontaveit (16) vs. Magda Lynette – no earlier than 04:00

Leila Fernandez vs. Caroline Garcia (4) – approximately 05:30

Yulia Putintseva – Karolina Plishkova (30) – approximately 06:00

Donna Vekich – Lyudmila Samsonova (18) – approximately 06:00

Shuai Zhang (23) against Petra Martic – no earlier than 06:00

Claire Liu v Belinda Bencic (12) – 10:00am

Marketa Vondrousova vs. Ons Jaber (2) – approximately 12:00 p.m.

• Male painting

Jeremy Chardy vs Daniel Evans (25 favourites) – 02:00

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (30) – Tommy Paul – 02:00

Jenson Bruskby vs Kasper Ruud (2) – no earlier than 03:30

Andriy Rublyov (5) against Emil Ruusuvuori – no earlier than 04:00

Diego Schwartzman (23) vs. Jeffrey John Wolfe – approximately 04:00

Michael Mmo vs. Alexander Zverev (12) – approximately 05:30

Taylor Fritz (8) vs. Oleksii Popyrin – no earlier than 06:00

Maxime Cressy vs Holger Rune (9) – approx 07:30

Grigor Dimitrov (27) vs. Laszlo Jere – approximately 07:30

Enzo Cuaco vs Novak Djokovic (4) – 10:00am

Adrian Mannarino – Alex de Minaur (22) – no earlier than 10:00

Andy Murray vs Thanasi Kokkinakis – approx 11.30am.

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

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