New Zealand’s Lulu Solar in motion throughout her first spherical match towards Czechia’s Linda Fruhvirtova. Photograph: Reuters
New Zealand’s Lulu Solar was crushed by Linda Fruhvirtova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 7-5 within the first spherical of the Australian Open in heat circumstances on court docket 13.
It was the primary match of the 12 months for Solar who has been making an attempt to get well from a wrist harm. Fruhvirtova had come by qualifying profitable three matches.
Twenty-four-year-old Solar held important leads in each units, 3-1 within the first, after breaking her opponents serve within the first recreation of the match and once more 3-1 within the second.
The left-handed New Zealander, ranked 86th, seemed to struggle again within the second set after being down 3-5 and held off a number of match factors earlier than profitable her personal serve and breaking her opponents to degree the scores 5-5.
Nevertheless, Fruhvirtova ranked 132 then broke Solar’s serve to go forward 6-5 after which held her personal serve to win the match.
Erin Routliffe and her new doubles associate Asia Muhammad are in motion on Wednesday afternoon.
