Melbourne, SANA-
Spanish champion Rafael Nadal reached the second round of the Australian Open tennis tournament, the first major tournament of this year.
The qualification of the first seed in the tournament came after defeating Britain, ranked 38th seed, Jack Draper, in three sets to one, the details of which were 7/5, 2/6, 6/3, 6/3.
He will meet last year's title holder in the second round, American Mackenzie McDonald, who in turn defeated his compatriot Brandon Nakashima, with a score of 7/6, 7/6, 1/6, 6/7, 6/4.
While the most prominent qualifiers for the same round were the Greek third seed Stefanos Testipas, the sixth seed Canadian Felix Auger Aliassimi, the seventh seed Russian Daniel Medvedev, and the Italian seed 15 Yannick Sener.
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