In the first round match, the Russian-Kazakh duet defeated a pair of Elena Ostapenko (Latvia) - Lyudmila Kichenok (Ukraine) with a score of 6:4, 6:4.
The duration of the meeting was 1 hour 29 minutes.
Recall that the competition is held from 16 to 29 January in Melbourne.
Earlier it was reported that Anna Kalinskaya and Caroline Doulhide won the first round of the Australian Open doubles tournament.