DAY 3 -- AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2015
The first
part of the second round of Australian Open saw some excellent tennis. Rafa
survived a scare from the world no. 112 Tim Smyczek while Federer won after
dropping the first set. Sharapova too scampered through after conceding two
match points against Panova. Halep however sailed through easily.
Men’s Singles
Rafael Nadal, injured and ill,
fought through a long grueling four hour period to earn his round of 32 berth.
Karlovic (23), Klizan (32), Mayer (26), Rosol (28), Goffin (20), Chardy (29)
and Kohlschreiber (22) were the seeded players to be shown the door in the Men’s
Singles today in the second round.
Some of the prominent matches
were:
Federer (2) defeated Bolelli (3-6;
6-3; 6-2; 6-2)
Nadal (3) defeated Smyczek (6-2;
3-6; 6-7; 6-3; 7-5)
Murray (6) defeated Matosevic (6-1;
6-3; 6-2)
Dimitrov (10) defeated Lacko (6-3;
6-7; 6-3; 6-3)
Tomic defeated Kohlschreiber (22)
(6-7; 6-4; 7-6; 7-6)
Seppi defeated Chardy (29) (7-5;
3-6; 6-2; 6-1)
Berdych (7) defeated Melzer (7-6;
6-2; 6-2)
Kyrgios defeated Karlovic (23) (7-6;
6-4; 5-7; 6-4)
Baghdatis defeated Goffin (20) (6-1;
6-4; 4-6; 6-0)
Dudi Sela defeated Rosol (28) (7-6;
5-7; 7-5; 6-3)
Anderson (14) defeated Berankis (6-2;
6-2; 7-6)
Women’s Singles
The queen of comebacks, Sharapova
won after conceding two match points. None of the seed faltered today. Mladenovic
was only player of reckoning to crash out.
Prominent matches of the day
were:
Makarova (10) defeated Vinci (6-2;
6-4)
Sharapova (2) defeated Panova (6-1;
4-6; 7-5)
Halep (3) defeated Gajdosova (6-2;
6-2)
Peng (21) defeated Rybarikova (6-1;
6-1)
Errani (14) defeated
Soler-Espinosa (7-6; 6-3)
Bouchard (7) defeated Bertens (6-0;
6-3)
Matthek Sands defeated Mladenovic
(7-6; 7-6)
India’s Day at Melbourne
Sania Mirza and Leander Paes won
their respective matches in the first round of their doubles match today. Sania
Mirza was partnering Su-Wei Hseih of the Chinese Taipei and Leander was
partnering Klassen.
Prominent doubles matches at Australian Open
Men’s Doubles
M. Bryan/B. Bryan defeated
Millman/Mitchell (6-3; 7-5)
Paes/Klassen defeated Lipsky/R
Ram (6-4; 7-6)
Quereshi/Zimonjic defeated
Gabashvili/Kukushkin (6-7; 6-4; 6-3)
Hewitt/Guccione defeated
Delbonis/Ramos (6-3; 6-3)
Women’s Doubles
Mirza/Hsieh defeated
Irigoyen/Oprandi (6-2; 6-0)
Hingis/Pennetta defeated Bencic/Siniakova
(7-6; 6-2)
Makarova/Vesnina defeated
Keys/Riske (7-5; 6-1)
Muguruza/Suarez Navarro defeated
Lepchenko/Tatishvili (6-3; 6-2)
Tomorrow at the Australian
Open
The top seeded players featuring
tomorrow will be Serena, Djokovic, Kvitova and Wawrinka.
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