Talk About Tennis 2.0

Rod Laver Arena

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
T. Maria vs M. Sakkari 5

Women's Singles • Round 1
C. Osorio vs N. Osaka 13

Day session - Not before 10:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
M. Giron vs R. Nadal 6

Night session - From 3:00am EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
A. Barty 1 vs L. Tsurenko Q

Men's Singles • Round 1
N. Djokovic 1 vs M. Kecmanovic

Margaret Court Arena

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
F. Ferro vs E. Svitolina 15

Men's Singles • Round 1
B. Nakashima vs M. Berrettini 7

Women's Singles • Round 1
Q. Wang vs C. Gauff 18

Night session - From 3:00am EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
A. Zverev 3 vs D. Altmaier

Women's Singles • Round 1
A. Tomljanovic vs P. Badosa 8

John Cain Arena

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
L. Djere vs D. Shapovalov 14

Men's Singles • Round 1
H. Hurkacz 10 vs E. Gerasimov

Day session - Not before 1:00am EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
S. Kenin 11 vs M. Keys

Day session - Not before 3:00am EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
F. Lopez vs J. Millman

Kia Arena

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
B. Bencic 22 vs K. Mladenovic

Men's Singles • Round 1
G. Monfils 17 vs F. Coria

Men's Singles • Round 1
C. Norrie 12 vs S. Korda

Day session - Not before 1:00am EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
B. Krejcikova 4 vs A. Petkovic

1573 Arena

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
A. Hartono Q vs A. Anisimova

Men's Singles • Round 1
K. Khachanov 28 vs D. Kudla

Day session - Not before 11:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
O. Jabeur 9 vs N. Parrizas Diaz

Day session - Not before 1:00am EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
J. Munar vs A. Karatsev 18


Court 3

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
A. Vukic WC vs L. Harris 30

Women's Singles • Round 1
D. Yastremska vs M. Brengle

Day session - Not before 11:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
V. Azarenka 24 vs P. Udvardy

Day session - Not before 1:00am EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
Y. Hanfmann Q vs T. Kokkinakis WC

Court 5

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
R. Albot Q vs Y. Nishioka

Women's Singles • Round 1
T. Martincova vs L. Davis

Women's Singles • Round 1
A. Kalinina vs J. Pegula 21

Day session - Not before 12:00am EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
O. Otte vs C. Tseng WC

Court 6

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
A. Potapova vs C. Giorgi 30

Women's Singles • Round 1
S. Sorribes Tormo 32 vs K. Flipkens

Men's Singles • Round 1
T. Etcheverry Q vs P. Carreno Busta 19

Day session - Not before 12:00am EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
T. Griekspoor vs F. Fognini

Court 7

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
C. Alcaraz 31 vs A. Tabilo Q

Men's Singles • Round 1
J. Duckworth vs A. Mannarino

Women's Singles • Round 1
V. Kuzmova Q vs X. Wang WC

Women's Singles • Round 1
S. Zheng vs M. Trevisan Q

Court 8

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
A. Sasnovich vs Q. Zheng Q

Women's Singles • Round 1
D. Parry WC vs M. Kostyuk

Men's Singles • Round 1
C. Moutet vs L. Pouille WC

Women's Singles • Round 1
P. Martic vs J. Teichmann

Court 12

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
H. Rune vs S. Kwon

Men's Singles • Round 1
A. Bublik vs E. Escobedo LL

Women's Singles • Round 1
E. Ruse vs J. Paolini

Court 13

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
F. Bagnis vs C. Garin 16

Women's Singles • Round 1
V. Kudermetova 28 vs C. Liu

Day session - Not before 11:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
D. Vekic vs A. Riske

Day session - Not before 1:00am EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
R. Opelka 23 vs K. Anderson

Court 14

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1

M. Fucsovics vs D. Lajovic

Women's Singles • Round 1
M. Zanevska vs K. Juvan

Men's Singles • Round 1
N. Milojevic Q vs M. Mcdonald

Women's Singles • Round 1
G. Minnen vs J. Cristian

Court 15

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
B. Bonzi vs P. Gojowczyk

Women's Singles • Round 1
B. Pera vs E. Alexandrova

Men's Singles • Round 1
D. Koepfer vs C. Taberner

Court 16

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 1
Y. Putintseva vs H. Tan

Men's Singles • Round 1
S. Kozlov WC vs J. Vesely

Women's Singles • Round 1
V. Gracheva vs L. Bronzetti Q

Men's Singles • Round 1
S. Querrey vs L. Sonego 25

Court 17

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 1
F. Delbonis vs P. Martinez

Women's Singles • Round 1
A. Van Uytvanck vs C. Bucsa Q

Women's Singles • Round 1
A. Schmiedlova vs J. Ostapenko 26

Men's Singles • Round 1
M. Kukushkin Q vs T. Paul

Anisimova through, after dropping the first set and almost sending me to the ER once again

Cami playing well, but not enough. She had two break points to get back on serve, but couldn't.

ponchi101 wrote:Cami playing well, but not enough. She had two break points to get back on serve, but couldn't.

Osaka’s serve bailed her out. Good test for Osaka.


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A good match for Camila. 3&3 Vs Naomi at the Aussie is not bad. Not good, but nothing to be ashamed of.

Osaka almost decapitated the chair umpire in the last minutes of that match...
I had just tuned into the match and that happened right away - she was just late on a shot, and it went right at the chair. Naomi was saying "SORRY! SORRY!" before the ball even hit the chair.
I recognized the umpire was Kasia Radwan, whom I had a nice chat with a couple of years ago at a Challenger. She was very nice - so I'm happy that Osaka didn't kill her.
She has her gold badge now - good on her. Of course, it doesn't hurt that she's married to one of the people in charge of officials .

Meanwhile, Shapovalov tried his best to blow his match vs. Djere, but couldn't quite accomplish it. Denis won the 1st 2 sets, played terribly in the 3rd, was up 5-2 in the 4th, and had to go to a tiebreak to win it.

Berrettini was suffering from some sort of abdominal problem during his match (muscle pull? internal?), but seemed to overcome it to defeat Nakashima in four sets.

The first set between Pedro Martinez and Delbonis lasted 98 minutes.

Yet another retirement when down big late in the third set for Yastremska. She has the worst luck with that.

Gauff is in serious trouble, down a set and 2 breaks to Wang (0-4). And she's not looking good.
Wang is also playing well.
Cori will have to dig really deep to pull this one out...

Wang choked away her serve when serving for the match at 5-0...
Then Cori had a tough service game where she saved some match points before finally holding.

I started watching midway through the 1st set.
Cori really wasn't playing well. She was sort of finding her game toward the end of the match - but by then it was too late, even with Wang's nervousness. Cori was also stubborn to the end, insisting on going blow-for-blow with Wang, rather than changing things up with more variety to take Wang's rhythm away. She tried only her second drop shot of the match in the last game - it failed, and it gave Wang match point, which she converted.

Not a good outing at all for Gauff - especially after having looked really good and making mature on court adjustments and decisions at times last week. She's similar to Felix in that it's one step forward, then 2 steps back... then 3 steps forward and 1 step back... To be expected with the youngsters.
She'll be fine, though. Hell, none of us won a Major at 17 years old, either...

True, but this Australian season has been mediocre for her. Only three wins in three tournaments.

Gauff has technical deficiencies in her forehand, misses shots by wider margins than anyone in the top 40 and has a balky second serve, even on her good days.

She has plenty of time to fix all of those shortcomings, but her game as it stands now is nowhere near as good as the commentators (and not just American ones, it's every announcer I've ever heard call one of her matches) say it is.

Hurkacz hit the shot of the day and what may end up being the shot of the tournament for its entire two weeks to break Gerasimov before serving out his four-set win.

Apparently the entire match was scratchy, but he hit an approach shot and Gerasimov hit a bullet pass down the line that Hurkacz dove for and volleyed just inside the sideline crosscourt for the break. When the ball left Gerasimov's racquet, I did not think there was any way Hurkacz would even touch it. He also landed smoothly on the hardcourt without getting hurt in the slightest.

Keys over Kenin was indeed an easy call.