Ukrainian tennis player Kateryna Byndl (#97 WTA) reached the third round of the 

Australian Open-2023

.

In the match of the second round, our compatriot beat the American Catherine McNally (#94 WTA) with a score of 6:1, 7:6.

The match lasted 1 hour 45 minutes.

During this time, the Ukrainian served once, committed 3 double faults and realized 4 out of 9 break points.

For the first time in her career, Ekaterina reached the third round of the Grand Slam tournaments.

Beindl's next opponent will be Latvian tennis player of Ukrainian origin Olena Ostapenko.

Earlier, the first racket of Ukraine, Angelina Kalinin ,

reached

the third round of the Australian Open-2023 .

Another Ukrainian, Marta Kostiuk, will also play in the second round of the competition today.

We will remind, at the match of the first round of the Australian Open-2023, a scandal happened between Beindl and the Russian Kamilla Rakhimova.

A group of fans 

came

 to the match with the flag of the Russian Federation and the face of Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin on their T-shirts.

In response to the shameful prank, the organizers of the tournament 

officially forbade bringing the flags of the aggressor countries to the games

.

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