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Play begins at the Australian Open with the season's first Grand Slam

Venus Williams returns at 45 as a wild card, while top seeds like Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz compete in the season's first Grand Slam tournament.

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Play has begun at the Australian Open — the first Grand Slam of the season — with No. 7 seed Jasmine Paolini facing Aliaksandra Sasnovich at the Rod Laver Arena.

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MELBOURNE (AP) — The seventh Jasmine Paolini series head had the outstanding start he wanted and beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich on Sunday by 6-1, 6-2 in just over an hour at the Rod Laver Arena, to launch the Australian Open. Paolini took the first set in just 27 minutes on Melbourne Park’s main court, giving the public what he wanted at the start of the first Grand Slam of the season. On the male side in Melbourne Park, the third pre-classified Ale…

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Play begins at the Australian Open with the season's first Grand Slam

Play has begun at the Australian Open — the first Grand Slam of the season — with No. 7 seed Jasmine Paolini facing Aliaksandra Sasnovich at the Rod Laver Arena.

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The Australian Open has been marked in red since last year on Carlos Alcaraz’s calendar. There is no more demanding way to start the season than to make the first Grand Slam of the year the main goal, since he is the only one left to complete his crown. After winning the US Open for the first time in 2022, reigning on Wimbledon’s grass in 2023 and touching the sky in Paris with his first Roland Garros in 2024, he only has to beat in the antipode…

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Márton Fucsovics advanced to the second round of the Australian Open after defeating Argentinian Camilo Ugo Carabelli without losing a set on the opening day on Sunday. The 55th-ranked player, who reached the quarterfinals in Adelaide this week, returned to the main draw of the Australian Open after a qualifying bye last year, and made his eighth appearance in the elite tournament in Melbourne since 2018. Argentinian Camilo Ugo Carabelli (47th) …

·Budapest, Hungary
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