Tereza Valentova upsets Maya Joint in Australian Open first round – as it happened

Australia’s No 1 Maya Joint returns to Tereza Valentova of the Czech Republic in the first round of the Australian Open. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

2.10am GMT

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Thanks for joining me, I’ll wrap things up here. But please come back to follow our live blog of the evening session later.

There will be men’s No 2 Jannik Sinner, Britain’s Katie Boulter, women’s No 10 Belinda Bencic, No 16 Naomi Osaka, plus Tsitsipas, Fritz, and Australians Inglis and Birrel going head to head.

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2.06am GMT

Jack Snape has filed a snap report on Maya Joint from Melbourne Park, with a little detail I hadn’t come across yet … Joint was first the seeded Australian woman since Ash Barty in 2022. So much weight in that statement, so much pressure on such young shoulders.

Updated at 2.15am GMT