Mihaela Buzărnescu was overwhelmingly dominated by Tsurenko and sent to New Year's Eve early after less than an hour of play. Digits Describing a Missed Match at the Beginning of the Season in Brisbane

The return to competition and the first official match of the 2019 season were brutal for Mihaela Buzărnescu, the 2018 revelation of Romanian women's tennis. Bucharest did not face Lesia Tsurenko in the first round of the Brisbane Premier tournament, beaten 6-0, 6-2, in just 58 minutes, by the Ukrainian ranked three in the WTA world rankings.

Mihaela Buzărnescu suffered a total collapse in the first set: with a relative ease at 40-15 in the opening game, the WTA 24 based in Bucharest was confused with a double mistake, and Tsurenko started to score points. Lesia managed not only the break with four consecutive points, but also won 20 points over the next 21, beating the score at 5-0. Unable to win in the first two matches of the Ukrainian athletes, Buzărnescu resisted the resistance in the sixth match, managed to reduce his opponent by three points and cancel a first ball. Tsurenko closed his hand with a bagel.

7 Mihaela Buzărnescu earned points in the first set: 3 in the first match, reported 40-15 on the job, 3 in the last – on the return.

2 points earned at Miki 7 played with the first serve of the first set (29%), 2 of 10 on the second service (20%)

41% was the frequency of Mihaela's first service in the first set

Mihaela Buzărnescu managed to stop the series of Lesia Tsurenko at the beginning of the second set by getting into the match and defending her for a draw, to take the lead for the first time. By saving two balls from his opponent, aged less than a year, Buzarnescu maintained hand balance in the first four games, up to 2-2, then a new brutal series of player who triumphed in 2018 in Acapulco: four consecutive games rewarded with just 7 points assigned.

Tsurenko handled Mihaela's second most spectacular defeat in 2018. In February, Belgium's Alison van Uytvanck came up against Mihaela in the best of Budapest, with 6-1 and 6-0. It is also interesting to note that Mihaela Buzărnescu starts for the second consecutive year the tennis season with a set lost to zero. In 2018, Miki started 3-6 and 0-6 ahead of Mary Sharapova in Shenzhen.

Lesia Tsurenko has a good base in Brisbane, and she will be in the top eight with a player with more than 250 positions below – Kimberly Birrell (Australia, 283 WTA), the author of the biggest surprise of the day by winning the face of Daria Kasatkina (Russia, favorite 7), 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (3). On the other hand, the elimination of Mihaela Buzărnescu means that Romania remains unrepresented in the simplest image of the hottest tournament of the first week of the WTA competitions. Miki will continue to double, qualifying in eighth place, Nadia Kichenok (Ukraine), and will face the best in the world, Krejcikova / Siniakova.