New defeat for Kristina Mladenovic eliminated in the first round of the Australian Open

The black series continues for Kristina Mladenovic eliminated in the first round of the Australian

Open.

Still no improvement in the sky of Kristina Mladenovic. Eliminated in the first round at the Australian Open by Ana Bogdan (6-3, 6-2), the French is 15 consecutive defeats and has not won a match on the circuit since early August 2017 and a victory over Tatjana Maria in the first round of the Washington tournament. She may say that the past is the past, the series begins to become as long as worrying.

Above all, the content of the meeting against a modest 104th world who had never won a match at the Australian Open hardly suggests better days in the immediate future. The faults come too fast (25 in the first set) and prevent him from being able to build anything on the court. Of course, Mladenovic is no longer afraid. She is no longer the player to beat and her opponents benefit. First, they play more liberated when the French seems constantly tense.

Then they try things in the hope that Mladenovic makes the mistake first, which is often the case. As a symbol, she let go of the match on an ugly double fault. There is something broken in French tennis and it must find the right tools to fix all that. And it starts to be urgent because Mladenovic will have to defend a pack of points in the coming weeks (victory in St. Petersburg, eighth in Dubai, final in Acapulco, Stuttgart and Madrid and half at Indian Wells in 2017).