Australian Open 2014: Shvedova and Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan enjoy success in doubles
17:11, 15 January 2014
ASTANA. January 15. KAZINFORM Kazakhstani tennis players Yaroslava Shvedova and Galina Voskoboeva have advanced to the second round of the 2014 Australian Open in Women's doubles, Kazinform refers to Vesti.kz.
Shvedova together with her partner Anabel Medina-Garrigues of Spain routed Bojana Jovanovski (Serbia) and Donnas Vekic (Croatia) in two straight sets 6:0, 6:1.
Kazakhstan №1 in tennis Galina Voskoboeva and Vania King (USA) eased into Round 2 by beating the Austrian duo Sandra Klemenschits and Yvonne Meusburger 6:2, 6:3.
Mikhail Kukushkin also representing Kazakhstan in Men's doubles with Teymuraz Gabashvili from Russia lost to Jean-Julien Rojer (Netherlands) and Horia Tecau (Romania) 2:6, 5:7 and left the competition.
Zarina Diyas and Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan earlier advanced to the second round of the tournament and are expected to vie against Marina Erakovic of New Zealand and Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain respectively.