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IS NICK KYRGIOS THE AUZZIE VERSION OF A “PUNK KID” LIKE ANDRE AGASSI WAS ? AND WHAT’S WITH BERNIE TOMIC DOING TRASHING CRAIG TILEY ? ONCE A PUNK ALWAYS A PUNK ?

Australian opinion is divided about Nick Kyrgios as the 19 year-old prepares to face former Wimbledon and US Open champion Andy Murray in a bid to become the first home semi-finalists at the year-opening Grand Slam since Lleyton Hewitt ten years ago.

ALEJANDRO PICKS MORE EPA PHOTOS FROM DOWN UNDER, RAFA, SHARAPOVA & MORE

Check out the latest photo gallery from the 2015 Australian Open in Melbourne.

RICKY DIMON’S PREVIEW AND PICKS FOR NISHIKORI VS. FERRER AND DJOKOVIC VS. MULLER ALL FROM THE 2015 AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Nick Kyrgios isn't the only unseeded player still alive at the Australian Open. Two others will be in action on Monday, with Gilles Muller and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez looking to continue their runs to the second week by pulling off fourth-round upsets. But there is bad news for both: they are going up against the two most recent champions of this event.

LADIES TENNIS NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA SINGLES & DOUBLES RESULTS. SHARAPOVA, HALEP, BOUCHARD ALL WIN

This lets Simona Halep defend her points -- and that means that she has also defended the #3 ranking. Petra Kvitova will remain stuck at #4. Yanina Wickmayer remains stuck below #65, but she seems finally to be coming back to life; her results here gained her more than a dozen ranking spots.

NICK KYRGIOS WINS IN 5, ANDY MURRAY WOMPS GRIGOR DIMITROV

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?

BLAME ROGER’S EARLY EXIT ON MIRKA’S PINK ROGER FEDERER HAT (RF) FEDERER IS EXHAUSTED THE MAN IS STILL A MERE MORTAL AND NEEDS SOME REST

Roger. Roger. Roger. You are the best tennis player ever. You are the G.O.A.T. ! You are really Betterer. But you are only one guy with a big, big , big , big life. Mirka and her pink hat looked adorable. The girls look beautiful. Leo and Lenny are adorable.

BABOLAT THE AEROPRO DRIVE PLAY ARRIVING IN JANUARY

Babolat announced it already in May 2014 " In 2015 we will have more and more players using Babolat PLAY on the Tour. I am convinced that within the next 10 years, Tennis world will be 100% connected ".

GLOBAL CHICK LOOKS AT THE WILLIAMS SISTERS AND TWO GIRLS NAMES MADISON , EITHER WAY YOU LOOK AT IT IT’S FOUR AMERICAN WOMEN STILL IN THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN

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.

RICKY DIMON’S PREVIEW AND PICKS FOR NADAL VS. ANDERSON AND BERDYCH VS. TOMIC

The fourth round of the Australian Open gets underway on Sunday and a blockbuster men's singles lineup features Rafael Nadal vs. Kevin Anderson and Tomas Berdych vs. Bernard Tomic. We've already seen one major surprise involving Andreas Seppi and Roger Federer. Is it time to sound the upset alert again?

EUGENIE BOUCHARD IS ASKED TO TWIRL. PLUS MORE UPDATES AND GOSSIP FROM THE 2015 AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Seriously Its The HAPPY slam but asking miss Bouchard a Lady from Canada to twirl ? Really ? Even GLOBAL CHICK was shocked. Global Chick knew Gussy Moran well. They were known to share a martini or margarita together. That's Gussy's whole scene played out again.

R-E-L-A-X: FEDERER WILL BE FINE AFTER SEPPI SERVES UP IMPROBABLE UPSET BY RICKY DIMON

Was Roger Federer's 6-4, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (5) loss to Andreas Seppi in Friday's third round of the Australian Open a disappointing one for Federer and his fans? Absolutely. Was it a crippling one? Of course not.

ROGER FEDERER LOSES TO SEPPI IN EARLIEST ROUND IN A DOZEN YEARS FOR HIM @ THE AUZZIE OPEN

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...

SEXISM BECOMING A TOPIC @ THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN? OF COURSE EUGENIE BOUCHARD’S IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. SOUNDS LIKE A GUSSY MORAN STORY. PLEASE TWIRL?

Corporate protagonists are already playing shift the blame as a "sexism" spat erupted in entertaining fashion at the Australian Open. The incident springs from an innocent-sounding request for admitted WTA shopaholic and fashionista Genie Bouchard - who wears the eye-catching Maria Sharapova clothing line from Nike...

GLOBAL CHICK REPORTS IN ON HER DUTIES @ THE 2015 AUSTRALIAN OPEN THE “HAPPY SLAM” JUST BECAME THE “SAD SLAM” FOR ROGER FEDERER

What happened? Well ok maybe we’re being a teeny bit sensationalist, of course by now we know what happened. The rock solid favourite for the title exited stage left from the first Slam of the year.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN LADIES SINGLES & DOUBLES RESULTS: SHARAPOVA, HALEP & BOUCHARD ALL VICTORIOUS

Click here to check out the ladies' results from the Australian Open in Melbourne.

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