“No, I’m a little exhausted today”, she said. Right now, I think she’s looking the most risky on the WTA Tour. But Williams resorted to the delusional again when asked what she thought of Giorgi. Ranked 35th, the Italian just missed out on a seeding.
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He even used the term “stratospheric” to describe Djokovic’s level.
“The preseason has gone very well”, Toni Nadal said. Though they have just one Slam between the two of them, Ivanovic made the Melbourne final in 2008 while Wozniacki has twice made the final of the other hard court Grand Slam. But when he revealed he had seen his Australian Open draw before his Friday match, he incurred the wrath of all those who had paid good money for tickets to watch him – he all but admitted he had tanked his match against Teymuraz Gabashvili.
Yet Djokovic won all the big points, and has won 45 of his last 51 matches against top-10 opposition.
“Who’s had the most success?”
Will Nadal pose a threat? .
Unlucky to find himself in the same quarter of the draw as Wawrinka, 14-times grand slam Nadal looms as a dark horse, arriving in Melbourne the fittest he has been in years and stinging from a season without a major trophy. The bad news is that he has been handed a very tricky first round.
“Will I be putting money on him against Djokovic in the final?” He is, too, positioning himself more aggressively on the baseline. Nadal begins against Fernando Verdasco – who has beaten his compatriot in two of their past three encounters. That would set him for up a semi-final against either Stan Wawrinka or Rafael Nadal.
Williams pulled out of this year’s pre-Open Hopman Cup with a knee injury. Opposite the draw to Serena, a “Muguruza vs. Azarenka” fourth-round showdown promises to reveal the tournament’s second favorite from the quarters onward.
In her new music video, Victoria Azarenka spins wheels on a motorbike and sprays graffiti on a wall.
Sharapova is set to open her 2016 Australian Open campaign on Monday.
Azarenka started 2016 impeccably, cruising to the title at a warmup in Brisbane by dropping a mere 17 games in five matches.
Local fans will also farewell former world number one Lleyton Hewitt, the two-time grand slam champion signing off with a record 20th appearance in the men’s draw.
Djokovic has won four of the past five Australian Opens – five in total – and is coming off a stellar 2015 where he reigned at Melbourne Park, Wimbledon and the US Open and was a finalist at Roland Garros.
At the Wimbledon Champions’ Ball last year, they revived the winners’ dance, a long-time tradition that had been dormant for many years and Djokovic and Williams are hoping they share the dance floor again this year with further history at the All England Club.
The men’s final of the year’s opening grand slam is scheduled for January 31 and with his wife Kim expecting their first child in mid-February it should give him time to return home to Britain for the birth.
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Djokovic may have won three of the four Grand Slam competitions he competed in last year, but Rusedski thinks matches between Murray and the 28-year-old demonstrated the potential for the Glasgow-native to cause a minor upset.
