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Sabalenka was held 4-4 in the first set, before winning 8 of the next 9 games to advance to the second round.
There were first round wins for Tiafoe and Paolini. Baptiste beat Townsend in straight sets.
Gauff and Mboko won, but Felix AA had to retire with an injury.
@mikesiva
The other Canadian Marina Stakusic was also taken off the court in a wheelchair.
@Kay
Sad!
Keys and Shelton won their first round matches, but Fernández and Mpetshi Perricault went out.
Old man Monfils bows out of his last ever Australian Open to a standing ovation.
Osaka had a fashionable entrance, but she had to work hard to win her first round match.
Tennis is going through a generation change, many new faces on the scene this tournament. it is time Venus hangs it up, she is degrading her image
@dayne
Gauff, Mboko, Baptiste, Sabalenka, Alcaraz and Medvedev all won their second round matches today.
Tiafoe and Paolini also advanced to the third round.
@mikesiva
Tiafoe’s weight loss is impressive
https://www.benrothenberg.com/p/frances-tiafoe-australian-open-coach-mark-kovacs-tennis
@Chrissy
Osaka had another three set battle to reach the third round.
Other second round winners were Keys, Shelton, Swiatek, Sinner and Djokovic.
@WI_cricfan
Mboko, Gauff and Sabalenka all advanced to the round of 16.
Paolini however, lost her third round match to American Jovic.
Tiafoe lost in straight sets to de Minaur.
Keys, Shelton and Sinner all won their third round matches fairly comfortably.
Jannik Sinner's ambitions of winning a third straight Australian Open title looked close to being over as the Melbourne heat crept towards 40C.
In the end, the rising temperatures helped the cramping Italian come through a testing third-round match - because the Grand Slam tournament's heat rule was invoked.
Only coming off court and having the roof pulled over saved Sinner from a shock defeat by American world number 85 Eliot Spizzirri.
"I got lucky with the heat rule," conceded Sinner, who came through to win 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-4.
Glad I can come to CC.com to find out what really happened.
@KTom
Matter of opinion. The last three sets were fairly comfortable. No tiebreaker. The American had no set point in sets two, three and four. No need for a fifth set. At no stage did Sinner face a match point.
Note the use of the word "fairly".
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But your opinions are welcome too.
Osaka pulled out with injury. Pity!
Sabalenka beat Mboko in two contrasting sets to reach the quarter finals, while Gauff needed three sets to win her third round match.
Another straight sets win for Alcaraz. There is such a gulf in class between the top two men and the rest of the men, now that age has caught up with Djokovic. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict one of Sinner and Alcaraz will win this tournament.
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