20/01/2015 DAY 2: Australian Open 2015

                                     DAY 2 -- AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2015

The second day of the first major tennis event of the day saw the top seeds cruising along to the second round easily. Djokovic (1), Wawrinka (4), Serena (1), Kvitova (4) defeated their respective opponents in straight sets. The most interesting match was definitely the clash between the Frenchmen, 17^th seeded Gael Monfils and Lucas Pouille. Monfils bounced after being down two sets to nil to beat his opponent.

Men’s Singles

All prominent players sailed along smoothly on the second. All eyes were set on the defending champion Wawrinka, but he showed his class and moved ahead to the next round. The Aussie legend Hewitt faltered a set much to the chagrin of the audience at Rod Laver Arena but finally class prevailed and he won 3-1.

The prominent matches of the day were:

Wawrinka (4) defeated Ilham (6-1; 6-4; 6-2)

Djokovic (1) defeated Bedene (6-3; 6-2; 6-4)

Hewitt defeated Zhang (6-3; 1-6; 6-0; 6-4)

Raonic (8) defeated Marchenko (7-6; 7-6; 6-3)

Nishikori (5) defeated Almagro (6-4; 7-6; 6-2)

Monfils (17) defeated Pouille (6-7; 3-6; 6-4; 6-1; 6-4)

Giles Simon (18) defeated Haase (6-1; 6-3; 6-4)

Ferrer (9) defeated Bellucci (6-7; 6-2; 6-0; 6-3)

Verdasco (31) defeated Ward (2-6; 6-0; 7-6; 6-3)

Isner (19) defeated Wang (7-6; 6-4; 6-4)

Granollers defeated Robert (6-3; 6-4; 6-4)

Lorenzi defeated Dolgopolov (21) (6-4; 6-3; 6-2)

Women’s Singles

Serena won her match against Van Uytvanck. She had kicked up a storm in the run-up to the Grand Slam. 12^th seeded Flavia Pennetta, 15^th seeded Jankovic were two prominent players to crash out.

The prominent matches of the day:

Stosur (20) defeated Niculescu (6-4; 6-1)

Azarenka defeated Stephens (6-3; 6-2)

Kvitova (4) defeated Hogenkamp (6-1; 6-4)

Venus Williams (18) defeated Torro-Flor (6-2; 6-2)

Wozniacki (8) defeated Taylor Townsend (7-6; 6-2)

Serena (1) defeated Van Uytvanck (6-0; 6-4)

Radwanska (6) defeated Nara (6-3; 6-0)

Cibulkova (11) defeated Flipkens (3-6; 6-3; 6-1)

Giorgi defeated Pennetta (12) (4-6; 6-2; 6-3)

Muguruza (24) defeated Erakovic (7-5; 6-0)

Zvonareva defeated Jabeur (6-2; 6-3)

Hantuchova defeated S Zheng (6-4; 6-4)

Bacsinszky defeated Jankovic (15) (6-1; 6-4)

Tomorrow, Day 3 (21/01/2015) at Australian Open

The prominent players to feature tomorrow in the Singles second round are Sharapova, Federer, Nadal, Halep and Murray. Men’s and Women’s Doubles starts from tomorrow. Sania Mirza is partnering with Su-Wei Hseih in their first round match. Leander Paes is also playing with Klassen in their first round match tomorrow.