Tennis ITF Australian Open 2024

[Josh 10,517]

 young talent Linda Noskova takes down [32]  Marie Bouzkova 6-1, 7-5!

Edited January 15 by Josh

[Makedonas 2,155]

4 hours ago, Illya said:

Dayana Yastremska  literally destroyed current Wimbledon champ Marketa Vondrousova with a stunning 6-1, 6-2. 

What's more, Taylah Preston, who is "Yastremska's twin", made some problems with Eli Svitolina , but our star handled them with a double 6-2. 

Really impressive from Yastremska, especially since she struggled in all three of her qualifying matches, including against our own Valentini Grammatikopoulou (6-4 3-6 6-4)

[Makedonas 2,155]

Ukrainians having a great tournament so far.

 

Croatians, Czechs, Russians not.

[rafalgorka 1,532]

Magda Fręch fighting hard vs Saville. Winner plays Osaka or Garcia here. But level of the game is rather low. Many unforced errors

[Josh 10,517]

 Laura Siegemund continues her great start to the year, defeating [17] Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (9)

[Josh 10,517]

Meanwhile,  Denis Shapovalov records yet another bad result, losing in straight sets (6-3, 7-5, 7-5) to  Jakub Mensik (a random player I’ve never even heard of before) 

 

So painful being a fan of him (and other Canadian tennis players in general) he’s always losing (and dropping sets) against lower ranked opponents, and he rarely goes far in tournaments anymore. 

 

At least we have Leylah Fernandez and Gaby Dabrowski (who is also partnered up with a honorary Canadian representing New Zealand in Erin Routliffe) 

Edited January 15 by Josh

[Josh 10,517]

 Milos Raonic takes the first set 7-6 (6) over home-favorite  Alex De Minaur! Still a long way to go, but early on looking like it’ll go to 5 (and probably all tiebreaks)

Edited January 15 by Josh

[Josh 10,517]

Down 3-5 and facing 3 SPs, Raonic had a chance to break to get back on serve but unfortunately couldn’t convert. De Minaur takes the second set 6-3.

[Josh 10,517]

Raonic retires at 0-2 15-30 in set three, due to a hip flexor issue. Kind of inevitable after the MTO late in that first set. Praying for a successful recovery, and hopefully he can get back to his best soon. 

Edited January 15 by Josh

[Gianlu33 4,574]

Osaka is on the right track to come back; unfortunately, she made too many mistakes. She deserved at least to compete in the third set.