Britain's Heather Watson progressed past Mayar Sherif, while Harriet Dart was knocked out by Iga Swiatek in the first round of the Australian Open.
Heather Watson gained her first grand slam victory in a year with a three-set success over Mayar Sherif of Egypt.
Wins have been hard to come by recently for Watson but she ended a seven-match losing run dating back to August in Adelaide last week and carried that confidence into Melbourne.
She is now ranked down at 94, 32 places lower than Sherif, who has been heading in the other direction.
But Watson played a fine match to win 6-3 5-7 6-2, thumping 40 winners and putting aside the disappointment of losing the second set.
It wasn't to be for Harriet Dart, as Iga Swiatek won 11 games in a row to defeat her in the first round.
Dart came through qualifying for the third time here in four years, and for the third time found herself on Rod Laver Arena facing one of the big names.
She suffered the dreaded double bagel against Maria Sharapova in 2019 before a much better performance against Simona Halep the following year.
Dart, ranked 123, made a good start against seventh seed Swiatek, leading 3-1, but the Pole began to cut out the errors and, despite not doing too much wrong in the second set, the British number three failed to win another game.
