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Today's match vs Andy Murray ( @andy_murray ) where Murray has shown that he is finally 100% healthy after his back surgery. The match was up in the air and could have, quite frankly, really had gone either way until the key break Nole made in the third set (4/3), and solidifying it by holding his own serve to close the third set 6/3.
Wednesday's lineup at the Australian Open is a scintillating one on both the men's and women's sides. Each of the top players in the world--Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams--is in action. Also taking the court are Venus Williams, Madison Keys, and defending men's champion Stan Wawrinka.
There is something in the air… could it be that the Aussies are about to turn a corner in their tennis fortunes since the glory days of Lleyton Hewitt, Pat Rafter, Mark Philippousis and even Pat Cash?
Yes dear readers, hang on to your “bonza” hats, especially if they’re the fancy ones with straws and space for your Aussie beer! We are almost at the first week of skewed body clocks and massive bugs the size of pterodactyls.
Roger Federer feared well before stepping onto court in the Australian Open third round against Andreas Seppi that something was not quite right with his game. The Swiss second seed found out the hard way that his sensation was correct as he lost in the third round in Melbourne for the first time in 14 years, taking a 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 7-6 (7-5) defeat...
Click here to check out the ladies' results from the Australian Open in Melbourne.
Well thank heavens for that chink in the clouds, a return to the norm … we don’t mind admitting we were properly exhausted after all the drama of Day Three at the Australian Open, and Day Four was a little happier. OK well maybe not for eighth seed Caroline Wozniacki.
Hello from "Down Under " ! It's so bright here that even the 10s balls are wearing "sunnies" ( auzzie slang for sunglasses ) It seems like every clothing manufacturer went Hot / bright / Cray Cray colors.
By recent standards, this is already a successful Australian Open for the American men. Two are through to the third round as of Thursday afternoon Australia time and both John Isner and Steve Johnson have advanced in convincing fashion. But it could be oh so much better.
This was hard to believe -- Alexandra Panova was up 4-1, 30-0 in the third set. The commentators thought that the double-fault that followed was critical, but whatever the crucial point (if there was one), Panova failed to convert two match points, leaving Maria Sharapova still in the hunt for the #1 ranking. She'll surely have to do better than this, though.
Four-time champion Novak Djokovic will look to take another step towards becoming the 2nd man to win 5 Australian Open titles when he takes on Russia’s Andrey Kuznetsov in the 3rd match on Rod Laver Arena.
Click here for the latest women's Australian Open results.
Top seed Serena Williams began with a win over Alison Van Uytvanck 6-0, 6-4 as double Wimbledon winner and fourth seed Petra Kvitova rolled over Richel Hogenkamp 6-1, 6-4. Number six Agnieszka Radwanska advanced over Kurumi Nara of with the loss of three games while eighth seed Caroline Wozniacki defeated American Taylor Townsend 7-6 (7-1), 6-2.
Top seed Novak Djokovic showed no sign of the stomach virus which laid him low last week as he joined holder Stan Wawrinka with an overwhelming win into the second round of the Australian Open on Tuesday. Djokovic put aside his early loss in Doha which got his 2015 preparation off to a poor start, with the world number one bossing Slovenian Aljaz Bedene 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.
It is always a tricky obstacle course – for those of us who toil over the draw brackets and write the previews working out who meets which seed where, there is always that small moment of doubt – who will fall by the wayside, and thus ruin our painstaking planning!
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