Gracheva, headliner of French women’s tennis in full doubt

A Gracheva and everything is fine? Not quite. Tuesday, the recently naturalized French Russian, sufficiently in control of her nerves to contain Caty McNally (6-3, 6-4) who had not played much for ten months after an elbow injury, qualified for the second round , saving the blue clan from a horrible record of zero qualifiers at this stage which would have been a first in Melbourne since… 1985.