AUSTRALIAN OPEN, Melbourne, ATP GRAND SLAM

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Results from the Australian Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday

17-Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Jurgen Melzer (Austria) 7-5 3-6 6-2 6-2
4-Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) beat Martin Klizan (Slovakia) 4-6 6-4 7-5 4-6 6-4
Steve Darcis (Belgium) beat Samuel Groth (Australia) 3-6 6-3 6-2 6-2
Noah Rubin (U.S.) beat Bjorn Fratangelo (U.S.) 6-7(4) 7-5 3-6 6-2 6-2
Dudi Sela (Israel) beat Marcel Granollers (Spain) 5-7 6-3 6-2 6-0
14-Nick Kyrgios (Australia) beat Gastao Elias (Portugal) 6-1 6-2 6-2
23-Jack Sock (U.S.) beat Pierre-Hugues Herbert (France) 6-4 7-6(4) 6-3
12-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) beat Thiago Monteiro (Brazil) 6-1 6-3 6-7(5) 6-2
Steve Johnson (U.S.) beat Federico Delbonis (Argentina) 6-3 6-4 6-4
Andreas Seppi (Italy) beat Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) 6-4 7-6(4) 6-7(3) 7-5
Daniel Evans (Britain) beat Facundo Bagnis (Argentina) 7-6(8) 6-3 6-1
Paolo Lorenzi (Italy) beat James Duckworth (Australia) 6-4 7-6(4) 6-7(4) 6-4
Lukas Lacko (Slovakia) beat 26-Albert Ramos (Spain) 4-6 7-5 1-6 6-4 6-3
Alexander Bublik (Kazakhstan) beat 16-Lucas Pouille (France) 6-0 3-6 6-3 6-4
Karen Khachanov (Russia) beat Adrian Mannarino (France) 6-4 3-6 7-6(9) 6-3
1-Andy Murray (Britain) beat Illya Marchenko (Ukraine) 7-5 7-6(5) 6-2
Dusan Lajovic (Serbia) beat Stephane Robert (France) 6-3 6-3 6-3
7-Marin Cilic (Croatia) beat Jerzy Janowicz (Poland) 4-6 4-6 6-2 6-2 6-3
Diego Schwartzman (Argentina) beat 22-Pablo Cuevas (Uruguay) 6-3 6-3 6-0
Malek Jaziri (Tunisia) beat Go Soeda (Japan) 6-3 6-4 6-3
Andrey Rublev (Russia) beat Lu Yen-Hsun (Taiwan) 4-6 6-3 7-6(0) 6-3
19-John Isner (U.S.) beat Konstantin Kravchuk (Russia) 6-3 6-4 6-7(5) 6-1
31-Sam Querrey (U.S.) beat Quentin Halys (France) 6-7(10) 7-6(4) 6-3 6-4
Mischa Zverev (Germany) beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) 6-3 7-6(5) 6-4
Alex De Minaur (Australia) beat Gerald Melzer (Austria) 5-7 6-3 2-6 7-6(2) 6-1
27-Bernard Tomic (Australia) beat Thomaz Bellucci (Brazil) 6-2 6-1 6-4
5-Kei Nishikori (Japan) beat Andrey Kuznetsov (Russia) 5-7 6-1 6-4 6-7(6) 6-2
Victor Estrella (Dominican Republic) beat Aljaz Bedene (Britain) 7-6(7) 7-5 0-6 6-3
29-Viktor Troicki (Serbia) beat Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 6-4 6-4 2-6 2-6 6-3
10-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) beat Luca Vanni (Italy) 6-1 0-0 (Vanni retired)
Ryan Harrison (U.S.) beat Nicolas Mahut (France) 6-3 6-4 6-2
Jeremy Chardy (France) beat Nicolas Almagro (Spain) 4-0 (Almagro retired)

 

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Definitely Stan is an animal :spank:
Ouch!

Bit higher and that could have been eye watering. I think Stan was expecting Klizan to go one way or the other but he'd given up on the point, stayed still and took some pain :spank2:

 

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Heartbreaking loses for Kuznecov, Janovic, Klizan and Lu. I feel for them.

I liked to see Lacko and Lajovic win. Lajovic will play against Tsonga and if he wins, he will get reputation of French slaughterer.

Many potentially good matches in Day 2. Some of them are:

Novak v Fiasco

Brown v Raonic

Edmund v Giraldo

Haas v Paire

Mueller v Fritz

Tiaffoe v Kukushkin

Youzhni v Baghdatis

Tursunov v Stepanek

Fognini v Lopez

There are also some teenage sensations to check like Reilly Opelka, Jelena Ostapenko and Ana Konjuh. Too much tennis to watch.

Novak v Fiasco, Brown v Raonic stand out for me. Don't think the results are seriously going to be in doubt for either but should be entertaining.

Monfils/Vesely is another one I'll try and watch.

 

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Order of Play - Tuesday

 

[Carol]

Novak v Fiasco, Brown v Raonic stand out for me. Don't think the results are seriously going to be in doubt for either but should be entertaining.

Monfils/Vesely is another one I'll try and watch.

Wow britbox, have you read my thoughts? that's exactly I'm thinking besides Vasely-Monfils match will be interesting too

 

[Mastoor]

Wow britbox, have you read my thoughts? that's exactly I'm thinking besides Vasely-Monfils match will be interesting too

You'll be both disappointed to find Vesely in a truly horrible form.

 

[Carol]

You'll be both disappointed to find Vesely in a truly horrible form.

Has he been injured?

 

[Mastoor]

Has he been injured?

I wondered that myself last week when I watched him faulting all around the court.

 

[Carol]

I wondered that myself last week when I watched him faulting all around the court.

I haven't seen him for long time but anyway I don't think Monfils is in better conditions, he has been injured (one more time)

 

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I think I went with De Minaur for the upset. Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!

i watched at least a set and a half..amazing start to de minaurs major career..lots of young aussies as well as young gun americans between 17-21 on the rise now.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

Federer seemed decent enough. 4 set win and 19 aces is better than a punch on the eyebrow.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

zed breaks haase straightaway.

 

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Zed should walk this first rounder.

 

[Carol]

If Rafa one day would have done or will do 19 aces I would be the most happy of his fans, I wish! then I'm sure he would win very easy against anyone

 

[Carol]

6-2 3-6 5-7 hmmmm not too easy for Zverev

 

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Yeah, Sascha Zverev is in trouble with Haase... but he's just broken for 5-3 in the fourth. C'mon!

 

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Zed levels it up at 2 sets each.