Australian Open LIVE: Emma Raducanu vs Shelby Rogers latest score and updates as Jack Draper and Katie Boulter in first-round action

Game, set and match! Boulter through to Australian Open second round

Boulter’s backhand comes alive as she hits a succession of clean winner to jump into a 5-0 lead in the tiebreak!

It was the perfect start and Boulter crushes a forehand winner against Yuan’s second serve to seal a 7-5 7-6 win!

Relief for the British No 1 after struggling to close out the second set – and Boulter books her place in the Australian Open second round.

It’s only the second time she’s won a main draw match in Melbourne – and first time since 2019. It builds on her strong end to 2024 and she will face either Qinwen Zheng or Ashlyn Krueger.

Boulter looked to be fading as Yuan held serve to move 6-5 ahead, but steadies to force the second-set tiebreak.

Boulter sees two match points come and go as Yuan breaks back in the second set!

Boulter tightened up with a double fault on her first match point, before Yuan had the chance to break. Boulter saved it with a steely backhand winner down the line to get back to match point, but a backhand into the net brings it back to deuce.

Yuan digs in on the baseline and draws the backhand error from Boulter, before Yuan takes her chance on the second break point to stay alive in the match. How costly could those match points be for the British No 1?

Boulter breaks and will serve for the match at 5-4 in the second set! A strong backhand return from Boulter sets up the point and forces Yuan wide and the British No 1 moves to the brink of the second round.

A strong start from British No 1 Katie Boulter as she wins the opening set 7-5 against China’s Yuan Yue.

The 27-year-old is looking to reach the second round of the Australian Open for the second time and it’s on serve in the second set.

Holger Rune is through to the second round – but it turned into a slog against Japan’s Yoshihiton Nishioaka. Rune, the eighth seed, prevails 6-2 4-6 7-6 6-4 in three hours and 25 minutes on Rod Laver Arena and will play the French wildcard Arthur Cazaux next.

Meanwhile Tommy Paul has wrapped up his straight-sets win over Gregoire Barrere and the 14th seed will indeed meet Draper in round two on Thursday. Paul won his match in just 94 minutes – so almost two hours shorter than Draper. The American will be well rested.

Emma Raducanu will be in action on the 1573 Arena show court following the men’s singles match between American Mackenzie McDonald and the Chinese qualifier Juncheng Shang. After losing the first set, McDonald has hit back to lead 2-1, and we’ve just started the fourth set.

Raducanu could be about an hour away, unless we go to a fifth.

Draper looks to be ok – he’s talking to some medical staff courtside after taking a seat with his top off and has now walked off the court.

The 22-year-old looks set to face American Tommy Paul in the second round, in a rematch of their clash at the ASB Classic in Auckland last week.

He did – Jack Draper, immediately after beating Marcos Giron in five sets, runs off court and throws up.

GAME, SET AND MATCH! Jack Draper battles on!

The 22-year-old wins his first ever match at the Australian Open with a brilliant five-set comeback to beat Marcos Giron 6-4 3-6 4-6 6-0 6-2.

In the brutal Melbourne heat, which is topping 30c today, Draper struggled in the second and third sets and had to have his blood pressure checked after calling the trainer.

But Draper found some energy to break Giron early in the fourth set and from there produced some brilliant tennis to get over the line…

It’s finished off with a backhand winner down the line… and after winning match point and shaking Giron’s hand, I think he just ran off court to throw up in a bucket???