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| PSALT |
Australian Open - Day 1Order of Playhttp://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/scores/schedule/index.html I really hope they show Serena's match. I want to see her form. |
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| x.doublea |
The schedule shows what a big impact Serena left on the game during her dominance. Despite being ranked so low, despite playing so little last year, despite her poor showing last year at the AO, she is still on Rod Laver arena. I'm sure they'll broadcast the match (after all, it's a night match). | ||||||||||
| dav6789 |
I'm only watching the night matches so I am really glad Serena's match is the first of the night session. Not too interested in any of the other night matches though. | ||||||||||
| leftys_rock |
Of course, who wouldn't put a 7 time grand slam champion on the largest court? Although she hasn't played all that much, she's still the most successful active player around. And she won this only 2 years ago, so I expected them to put her on RLA. 
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| dav6789 |
Yes Serena is still a huge star wherever she plays, especially in Melbourne. Before her loss there last year, she haden't lost in Melbourne since 2001. TBH I wouldn't bet against another huge run this year, we never know what she will do. Her 2005 win was a huge surprise. | ||||||||||
| x.doublea |
You're all correct Serena... I'm saying though, based strictly on her past year's results, she deserves Court 3 at most. (not even Margaret Court Arena). Oh well, that's what you get if your name's Serena Williams....
Personally, I don't predict her to go farther than round three/four.... |
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| stevos14 |
Dave, will that be in the morning for you (the night matches?)
I would love to stay up till 3 and start watching, but that is just crazy cus I have school the next day. Actually, I think I'll go to bed early and get up super early and watch it... hmmm Sharapova-Pin better not be a night match! |
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| dav6789 |
Yes I will be watching coverage from 8:30 am til 1:00 pm. |
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| dav6789 |
1 hour 
lol, i remember our countdown to the A.Open last year aswell....it has just flown by! |
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| x.doublea |
I can't wait too... Mauresmo up first on Rod Laver.
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| dav6789 |
The defending champions of the singles events Amelie Mauresmo and Roger Federer will open up the tournament.
I am looking forward to seeing Serena play. The only other night match I assume they would show is Djokovic v Massu. |
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| x.doublea |
The Safin-Massu match is played on Rod Laver after Serena's match. |
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| leftys_rock |
It's Djokovic playing Massu right? 
And yes, for the US people, ESPN2 is showing Serena's match.
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| dav6789 |
Yeah so I assume they will stay on Laver for the whole night session....it would be very unfair if they showed both men's matches and would probably lead me to complain! 
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| x.doublea |
Mauresmo leads 6-3. Big difference is the winning percentage of second serve points.... | ||||||||||
| leftys_rock |
Andy lost the first set 20-18 in the tiebreak. 
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| PSALT |
Tsonga is quite talented. He has a big serve and a good forehand. Mcenroe was listing all the injury's he has had in his career (he is only 21). 
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| PSALT |
Andy took the second set in a tiebreak. Tsonga was up 5-2 in the second. | ||||||||||
| PSALT |
some results,
Juan Carlos Ferrero - (ESP - 24) def Jan Hajek - (CZE) 3-0 (RET) Amer Delic (USA) def Gilles Simon (FRA) 6-3 6-0 6-2 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) def Joachim Johansson (SWE) 1-1 (RET) Amelie Mauresmo (FRA - 2) def Shenay Perry (USA) 6-3 6-4 Olga Poutchkova (RUS) def Marta Domachowska (POL) 6-2 6-4 Milagros Sequera (VEN) def Jarmila Gajdosova (SVK) 6-3 6-4 Shahar Peer (ISR - 16) def Romina Oprandi (ITA) 6-1 6-3 Zuzana Ondraskova (CZE) def Clarisa Fernandez (ARG) 6-4 6-2 |
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| J-man |
Tosonga is playing well. I don't think he can got the distance with Roddick. But he's playing well. Kind of werild playing Roddick again in your second GS match. | ||||||||||
| Tennis fan |
Tsonga is getting tired - he won't last | ||||||||||
| PSALT |
I agree. He might get another set, but Roddick will shake him off in the long run as Tsonga tires. |
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| x.doublea |
Many of the lower ranked players are missing the fitness... it's not that they're less talented, it's that they don't have the fitness to last five sets. That's too bad though, how many injuries he has (I didn't hear how many, but it sounds like a lot). |
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| PSALT |
he has had half a dozen at least. a knee injury, he had some problem with his back, I felt so sorry for him listening to all of that. Who knows if he could be ranked a lot higher than he is if it wasn't for all those injuries. Roddick is serving for the third set. |
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| leftys_rock |
He's got the 2 set to 1 lead. |
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| x.doublea |
He should be able to run over Tsonga now (but, who knows, Tsonga might be able to make things interesting). |
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| leftys_rock |
Roddick pulled it out in 4.
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| J-man |
Good for Roddick. Federer is battling Phau 3-2 Federer thrid set | ||||||||||
| leftys_rock |
Federer through in straights. | ||||||||||
| x.doublea |
He actually lost his serve four times despite serving at 70%... Phau lost his 9 times, though. | ||||||||||
| Tennis fan |
OMG did you all see the feud and shouting going on in the grounds between the Croats (Ancic, Ljubicic) and the Serbians (Djorkovic, Jankovic)? It was scary... 
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| x.doublea |
No, but, honestly, the Balkan region is just a huge mess... and that's for the past century or more.
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| x.doublea |
Wait, were the players shouting?
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| Tennis fan |
Of course not.  The fans were shouting the players names...
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| x.doublea |
Ok, phew, that would have been just scary. I'm sure the feud had something to do with politics, though.... |
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| Tennis fan |
The players were nowhere to be seen... this was going on outside. The police had to intervene... felt like soccer hooligans |
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| x.doublea |
Interesting match on Rod Laver about to start between Baghdatis and former finalist Rainer Schuettler, who has plummeted to the 100th rank. | ||||||||||
| PSALT |
I don't think it will be all that interesting. I think Baghdatis will easily overwhelm Schuettler in straights. |
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| PSALT |
here's an article on that feud earlier.....
http://www.tennisnews.com/exclusive.php?pID=16129 |
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| PSALT |
an interesting match had developed on Vodafone. Jill Craybas has evened the match at 1 set all against Nicole Vaidisova. 6-4 5-7 | ||||||||||
| x.doublea |
Yes... Vaidisova's up a break in third, though. |
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| PSALT |
Craybas has challenged Vaidisova's serve throughout the match though, I'm not sure it is close to being over. |
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| x.doublea |
Vaidisova leads 4-1 in the third.... |
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| PSALT |
am I the only person having trouble with the Aussie Open website? the scores have not changed for over 10 minutes now...... | ||||||||||
| x.doublea |
No, I'm having problems too. It has all stopped. |
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| leftys_rock |
Typical Federer first round match. 
Interesting, Baghdatis lost the second vs. Schuettler. And no, the scoreboard isn't working. |
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| Tennis fan |
Yep ... it's all dead! ...but I got ESPN2
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| PSALT |
I disagree. Losing serve that many times is not at all common for him. Maybe once in the first while he trys to find his groove, but he usually destroys him opponent in the last two sets. I wonder if skipping Doha is his problem.... |
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| leftys_rock |
A little more rusty than typical, but still, it reminded me a tad of his RG first round where he went down 3-0 immediately, but then got back comfortably. |
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| Tennis fan |
Yep! That's what I think it was... He was asked the question and kind of avoided it.... still said that it takes time getting into his rythm and last weeks exxo does not count. |
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| x.doublea |
One of his responses was actually, "I want to have a life".... |
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| PSALT |
Results
ATP Roger Federer (SUI - 1) def Bjorn Phau (GER) 7-5 6-0 6-4 Marcos Baghdatis (CYP - 11) def Rainer Schuettler (GER) 6-4 2-6 6-3 6-2 Mardy Fish (USA) def Ivan Ljubicic (CRO - 4) 4-6 7-6 6-4 6-4 woo!!! Andy Roddick (USA - 6) def Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 6-7 7-6 6-3 6-3 Novak Djokovic (SRB - 14) def Nicolas Massu (CHI) 6-1 6-1 6-0 Wayne Arthurs (AUS) def Stefan Koubek (AUT) 1-6 6-7 7-6 6-2 6-3 Thomas Johansson (SWE) def Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) 6-4 3-6 1-6 6-4 6-2 Richard Gasquet (FRA - 1  def Filippo Volandri (ITA) 6-4 6-4 6-2
Dudi Sela (ISR) def Paradorn Srichaphan (THA) 6-4 6-2 6-2 Tommy Robredo (ESP - 7) def Ruben Ramirez Hildalgo (ESP) 6-4 6-4 6-0 Mario Ancic (CRO - 9) def Go Soeda (JPN) 6-4 6-3 6-2 Sam Querrey (USA) def Jose Acasuso (ARG - 27) 6-7 6-4 6-1 6-3 ( )
Zack Fleishman (USA) def Agustin Calleri (ARG - 30) 7-5 4-6 6-3 6-4 (I have never heard of him......) Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP - 24) def Jan Hajek (CZE) 3-0 (Ret) Gael Monfils (FRA) def Daniele Bracciali (ITA) 7-6 6-7 6-4 7-6 Jonas Bjorkman (SWE) def Oliver Patience (FRA) 5-7 4-6 6-0 6-1 6-2 Danai Udomchoke (THA) def Martin Vassallo Arguello (ARG) 6-3 6-3 6-2 Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) def Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 6-3 6-1 6-7 6-7 16-14 ( )
Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) def Simon Gruel (FRA) 6-3 6-4 6-3 Amer Delic (USA) def Gilles Simon (FRA) 6-3 6-0 6-2 Radek Stepanek (CZE - 20) def Micheal Llodra (FRA) 6-2 6-4 6-0 Marc Gicquel (FRA) def Alun Jones (AUS) 3-6 6-7 6-4 6-1 6-0 Florent Serra (FRA) def Nicolas Devilder (FRA) 7-5 6-2 6-4 Nicolas Mahut (FRA) def Juan Monaco (ARG) 6-0 6-7 6-3 6-4 Jurgen Melzer (AUT) def Ivo Karlovic (CRO) 6-4 6-4 7-6 Mikhail Youzhny (RUS - 25) def Jan Hernych (CZE) 7-6 6-2 6-0 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) def Thomas Johansson (SWE) 1-1 (ret) David Ferrer (ESP - 16) def Kristian Pless (DEN) 7-5 6-4 6-3 Dominik Hrbaty (SVK - 22) def Jiri Vanek (CZE) 6-7 7-6 6-1 6-3 Feliciano Lopez (ESP) def Brian Wilson (USA) 7-6 4-6 6-3 7-6 Vincent Spadea (USA) def Igor Andreev (RUS) 6-2 7-6 6-1 only one match is still going on. Safin and Becker are about to enter a fifth set. also, the American men did quite well, 6-1 wins/loss for them. WTA Serena Williams (USA) def Mara Santangelo (ITA - 27) 6-2 6-1 Amelie Mauresmo (FRA - 2) def Shenay Perry (USA) 6-3 6-4 Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS - 3) def Jessica Moore (AUS) 6-2 6-0 Nicole Vaidisova (CZE - 10) def Jill Craybas 6-4 5-7 6-1 Katarina Srebotnik (SLO - 21) def Casey Dellacqua (AUS) 4-6 6-2 7-5 Nadia Petrova (RUS - 5) def Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) 6-3 6-2 Tatiana Golovin (FRA - 20) def Anna Smashnova (ISR) 6-3 6-1 Monique Adamczak (AUS) def Iroda Tulyaganova (UZB) 6-1 6-4 Jelena Jankovic (SRB - 11) def Aleksandra Wosniak (CAN) 6-3 6-3 Elena Dementieva (RUS - 7) def Stephanie Foretz (FRA) 6-1 6-2 Ai Sugiyama (JPN - 23) def Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) 6-3 6-4 Julia Schruff (GER) def Jie Zheng (CHN - 31) def 4-6 7-6 6-4 Maria Kirilenko (RUS - 26) def Karolina Sprem (CRO) 3-6 6-3 6-1 (that's what you get for thinking she would lose, Leftys!  )
Francesca Schiavone (ITA - 14) def Sandra Kloesel (GER) 6-4 6-4 Anne Kremer (LUX) def Michaella Krajicek (NED) 6-4 6-3 Maria Elena Camerin (ITA) def Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) 6-2 6-2 Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) def Melinda Czink (HUN) 1-6 6-1 9-7 Meilen Tu (USA) def Edina Gallovits (ROM) 2-6 6-4 6-2 Julia Vakulenko (UKR) def Elena Likhovtseva (RUS) 6-0 4-6 6-3 Martina Muller (GER) def Jorgelina Cravero (ARG) 6-0 6-3 Lucie Safarova (CZE) def Alberta Brianti (ITA) 6-3 6-1 Elena Vesnina (RUS) def Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP - 25) 6-7 6-1 6-1 Anastasiya Yakimova (BLR) def Laura Pous Tio (ESP) 6-2 4-6 7-5 Olga Poutchkova (RUS) def Marta Domachowska (POL) 6-2 6-4 Victoria Azarenka (BLR) def Yuliana Fedak (UKR) 6-2 5-7 6-4 Milagros Sequera (VEN) def Jarmila Gajdosova (SVK) 6-3 6-4 Gisela Dulko (ARG) Tiantian Sun (CHN) 6-2 6-2 Iveta Benesova (CZE) def Galina Voskoboeva (RUS) 6-7 6-1 6-4 Marion Bartoli (FRA) def Vera Dushevina (RUS) 6-0 6-3 Shahar Peer (ISR) def Romina Oprandi (ITA) 6-1 6-3 Zuzana Ondraskova (CZE) def Clarisa Fernandez (ARG) 6-4 6-2 Eva Birnerova (CZE) def Martina Sucha (SVK) 7-5 6-3 |
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| dav6789 |
I doubt skipping Doha was Federer's problem. I think he just had a bit of early season rust that everyone has. Federer has only played Doha 3 times before, and has won the A.Open without playing Doha. Federer also had a long week at Kooyong aswell, so I don't think his little blip can be blamed on the fact he didn't play Doha. It isn't one of his 'regular' tournaments either. | ||||||||||
| leftys_rock |
What? Kirilenko hasn't been playing all that well lately. Oh well, only one match.
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| dav6789 |
There aren't many surprises in the opening day. Mara Santangelo and Serena Williams were awful in the opening stages of their match, but Santangelo was just horrible and gave Serena the set .In the second set, Serena played well and made some great runs, so hopefully she can keep that type of form up. She faces veteran Anne Kremer, who upset Michaella Krajicek.
Safin v Becker was a great match from start to finish. I really like Becker's game and Safin also produced his stunning form. Really hugh quality match with a good result in Safin going through. If he keeps this up then he could have a good chance against Roddick in Round 3, as Roddick was awful today. I am pleased for Fish aswell, great win for him. He has started the year well with a SF in Auckland last week. Hopefully he can have a good comeback to the top this year. Most of the big names are still in though, and successful starts for the defending champions. |
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| J-man |
Good win for Serena. I hope she can continue to stay commited throughout the year. Fish also had a great win. Hopefully they will air his match at 3 PM today (Taped matches). Querry is making some nice progress. Taking out Acausso a tough customer. Really taking it to him in the last 2 sets. He looked frizzled after the first set lost. But bounced back nicely. | ||||||||||
| x.doublea |
Every odd year seems to be a good one for Safin, so I think he has a chance to do well here, if the pattern continues. Becker is quite good. He must have extra confidence now when he plays, since beat Andre in his last match. Serena will improve throughout the tournament. Her learning curve will be much steeper than most others. The trouble for her, though, will be managing to get out of the early rounds. If she can do so, she has a good chance of going deep. |
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| stevos14 |
What a win for Mardy Fish, that is HUGE! Ljubicic looked like he was in such good form at the beginning of the year, I can't believe it. | ||||||||||
| PSALT |
I called it.
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| Tennis fan |
I expected him to go out early, but not first round! |
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| Benchwarmer1 |
i bet you were expecting this reply HEYYYY...... |
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| leftys_rock |
To be honest, I wasn't really sure about that match, I was thinking "Hmm, Kirilenko isn't playing that good, but Sprem isn't either and she's really on and off, but Sprem hit's pretty big, so i'll go for her."
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| Benchwarmer1 |
sure you did... jk
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| PSALT |
she's just mad that Makira is better looking than her favorite player Sharapova....
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| Benchwarmer1 |
AMEN!!!! can't disagree w/ that logic
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| leftys_rock |
Sharapova has much better results though. I prefer results over looks, and plus, i'm a girl, I don't care how she looks, as long as she plays good tennis, it's good, and Kirilenko isn't playing good right now.
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