Britain’s Billy Harris got here again from a set all the way down to maintain alive his hopes of qualifying for the Australian Open, whereas Ryan Peniston additionally progressed.
The 28-year-old Harris, who has by no means made the primary draw of the lads’s singles at a Grand Slam, recovered to beat Belarusian Dimitar Kuzmanov 0-6 6-2 6-2 and arrange a gathering with David Goffin.
Peniston gained a final-set tie-break to beat Elias Ymer 6-1 4-6 7-6 (10-7).
However Lily Miyazaki was crushed on the primary day of motion in Melbourne.
Miyazaki misplaced to Australian 18-year-old Melisa Ercan, who was capable of overcome calf cramps to edge a second-set tie-break and seal a 6-4 7-6 (7-5) win.
With the event enjoying catch-up after rain prevented any play on Monday, the opposite 5 British gamers in qualifying – Harriet Dart, Heather Watson, Francesca Jones, Jan Choinski and Oliver Crawford – had their opening matches pushed again to Wednesday.
They are going to every be hoping to hitch Harris and Peniston within the second of three qualifying rounds as they bid to achieve the primary draw of the 12 months’s first Grand Slam event, which begins on Sunday.
Harris, Britain’s eighth-highest ranked males’s participant, earned his first ever match win on the ATP Tour on the Sofia Open in November.
That breakthrough victory, on his ATP debut, ensured the world quantity 200 can be ranked excessive sufficient to play within the qualifying rounds in Melbourne.
Harris, who started his profession driving between European tournaments in a van that had a mattress within the again, is scheduled to face Belgian former top-10 participant Goffin – the present world quantity 107 – in his second qualifying match on Wednesday.
Peniston, 28, will meet Tunisian Aziz Dougaz after lastly taking his eighth match level in opposition to Sweden’s Ymer, having missed 4 possibilities within the tenth recreation of the decider earlier than producing a powerful end within the tie-break.
British quantity three Dart faces Italy’s Nuria Brancaccio, Watson takes on Swiss participant Lulu Solar, and Jones performs Margaux Rouvroy of France within the ladies’s draw.
Within the males’s, Choinski opens in opposition to Lebanese participant Benjamin Hassan, whereas Crawford, who just lately switched from representing the USA, faces Belarusian Ilya Ivashka.