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Kazakstan's Yulia Putintseva reaches for a return to Britain's Heather Watson during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Kazakstan's Yulia Putintseva reaches for a return to Britain's Heather Watson during their first round match at the Australian Open in Melbourne Source: AP

23-year-old Yulia Putintseva from Kazakhstan missed out on the third round of Australian Open. She went down to Ana Bogdan from Romania 6:1, 2:6, 3:6 in 2 hours and 8 minutes. However Yulia has laid big part of the blame for her failure onto organizers who, according to her, did nothing to protect players from the heat when the mercury rose up to 39 degrees C.



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