Bad star for Kazakh tennis players at 2014 Australian Open
21:15, 13 January 2014
ASTANA. January 13. KAZINFORM Ukrainian tennis player Aleksandr Nedovyesov who currently represents Kazakhstan failed to advance to the Round 2 of the 2014 Australian Open, Kazinform was told by Vesti.kz.
Nedovyesov succumbed in three straight sets 3:6, 6:4, 6:4 to 7th seed Tomas Berdych.
Two more players from Kazakhstan were also unable to ease into the second round of the Grand Slam. Mikhail Kukushkin was beaten by Alejandro Falla from Columbia after four exhausting sets on court. Andrey Golubev could not finish his encounter against 8th seed Stanislas Wawrinka as an injury forced him to retire.