China's Bai produces heroics, Alcaraz and Sabalenka cruise on Australian Open's first day
MELBOURNE, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese qualifier Bai Zhouxuan produced a dramatic upset over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Sunday's first day of the Australian Open, where top seeds Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka cruised into the second round.
The first major of the year got underway amid warm temperatures that reached close to 30 degrees Celsius in Melbourne.
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