Women's Singles Match Results from the Australian Open

The first round of action for the women in Australia has seen four matches completed and one historic loss.

Spaniard Carla Suarez-Navarro defeated American Christina Mchale by winning the second and third sets 6 - 3 and 6 - 4 respectively.  Suarez Navarro dropped the first set 4 - 6.

Sixteenth ranked Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova bested German Kirsten Flipkens in two sets.  She won the first set 6 - 4 and won the second 7 - 6.

Ukrainian Kateryna Bondareko lost to China's Shuai Peng in three sets 6 - 2, 3 - 6, 6 - 8.

Former top ranked player in the world Dinara Safina of Russia was knocked out of the tournament without winning a single game by Kim Clijsters of Germany.  She lost 6 - 0, 6 - 0, marking the first time in Women's Tennis history that a former number one player failed to win at least one game.