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The Australian Open is living up to its “Happy Slam” reputation for No. 7 seed Tomas Berdych and his model girlfriend Ester Satorova. The two announced their engagement Tuesday during a Channel Seven interview on a beautiful day in Melbourne.
Dusan came along to help us when we got started. He knew we all were a group of hardcore tennis players, teachers, coaches, fans, collectors, historians, and a writer or two and mostly tennis runs in our blood types .... ( Gussy was wrong you don't need to be Jack K. to have TENNIS in your blood )
Serena Williams got off to another of her slow starts here; that seems almost standard operating procedure these days. She was down a break for most of the first set -- and then she got things together. She needs a lot more to assure the #1 ranking, though. Vera Zvonareva at least earned enough points that she ought to hit the Top 200.
Kei Nishikori takes another small step toward a career-high #4 ranking. The leading threat to him isn't even current #4 Wawrinka; it's Milos Raonic.
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.
Click here for the ladies tennis results from the 2015 Australian Open.
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.
There was something wrong with Roger Federer's hand in this match. At the time, at least, no one had a guess as to what -- perhaps an insect bite or a blister. It made things difficult early on, but obviously he got over it! He leaves Simone Bolelli around the #48 ranking he came in with.
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.
It is almost as if the tennis heavenly bodies were reading our observations of the stars feeling jittery on their first time out. The drama was to be had in the iconic Rod Laver Arena as first hot favourite Maria Sharapova, then Roger Federer, and then finally Rafael Nadal all took their turn to broil in the Round Two pressure cooker.
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.
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.
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