– Reuters pic, January 19, 2016.Novak Djokovic faces a French test at the Australian Open on Wednesday as fellow world number one Serena Williams looks to build on her early tournament momentum in a quest to win a 22nd Grand Slam. “It’s been OK. It’s totally fine”.
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Williams had 26 winners, including seven aces in the match.
Radwanska has been on a roll in recent months, winning the biggest title of her career at the season-ending WTA Finals in Singapore and then being crowned Shenzhen Open victor this month. “You have to be proactive I think with things like this and go and speak to the players rather than them reading about it in the newspapers or listening to it on the TV or the radio”.
“It wasn’t a pretty first set but I got it done and really should have closed it off in two”. I really gave a big effort there.
“Every time I come here, I always have a great time whether I win or lose”.
“It’s the least I expect to be in the third round of a Slam, obviously, so I’m pumped up, playing well, feeling good”, Federer said. “Suddenly I missed tennis so much so I decide to come back and compete again”.
No. 7-seeded Kei Nishikori, the 2014 U.S. Open finalist, advanced to the third round in the men’s draw with a 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over Austin Krajicek of the United States. “But I have a very strong belief in the way I want to play and the way I want to be thinking”.
In the latest developments, two more players said they had been targeted by match-fixers and Australian media reported that police were keeping a close eye on the tournament’s first round. So I definitely will be ready for that. “Overall, I’m just happy that I could get the match in because I know many players are waiting for the rain to stop”.
All players are required to attend press conferences after grand slam and tour-sanctioned matches, with the maximum penalty for not doing so set at $20,000 (£14,000).
Zheng picked up some solid ITF wins last year, and her best run in the latter half of the year was the Dalian title backed up with a couple of quarter-finals (Tokyo and Guangzhou) before tailing off a little.
Sharapova powered past Aliaksandra Sasnovich, 6-2, 6-1, to roll into the Australian Open third round and celebrate her 50th Australian Open main-draw victory.
Sharapova has had her own problems in the build-up to the year’s opening Grand Slam event, having had to withdraw from the Brisbane International because of an arm injury.
She will meet either Lauren Davis or Magdalena Rybarikova in the last 32.
But theres always a danger, you know.
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Sharapova was confident enough to test her opponent with some well-judged drop shots. “I said everything I needed to say two days ago. He just stood so far back behind the baseline”. He won the match in 4 hours, 41 minutes, on a service return victor. Meanwhile, Stephens’ tournament had barely gotten started when it abruptly ended with a first-round loss Monday to China’s Wang Qiang, who is ranked No. 102.
