Rounded up favorites at Australian Open
Many of the matches on the second day of the Australian Open held in Melbourne, Australia, were delayed due to high temperatures.
Serbian 4th seed Novak Djokovic, who has 21 Grand Slam titles in men’s singles and is the most decorated tennis player in the tournament’s history with 9 championships, defeated 75th seeded Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena in sets of 6-3 , 6-4 and 6-0 without any difficulty in the match, emerged victorious and entered the second round.
The Norwegian Casper Ruud, second seed, defeated the Czech Tomas Machac, seed number 115, by 6-3, 7-6, 6-7 and 6-3, winning 3-1.
The five seed, the Russian Andrey Rublev, defeated the Austrian Dominic Thiem, who has been on the agenda for his injury problems in recent years, 3-0 with results of 6-3, 6-4 and 6-2 in sets.
US eighth seed Taylor Fritz defeated Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili 3-1, ninth seed Dane Holger Rune 3-0, Serbian Filip Krajinovic won the second round visa.
2020 tournament finalist Alexander Zverev reached the next round despite struggling to fall behind twice in sets. The German tennis player number 12 defeated the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas 4-6, 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 and 6-4 3-2 after a fight of 4 hours and 6 minutes.
Failing to reach the cup despite playing in the final 5 times (2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016) at this tournament, 35-year-old British athlete Andy Murray beat 13th-seeded Italian Matteo Berrettini 6- 3, 6 -3, after the fierce competition. 4-6, 6-7 and 7-6 sets, defeated 3-2 and scored an upset.
JABEUR WINS IN THREE SETS
Tunisian 2nd seed Ons Jabeur, one of the tournament favorites in women’s singles, defeated Slovenian 88th seed Tamara Zidansek 2-1 in sets 7-6, 4-6, 6-1 in a bout which lasted 2 hours and 17 minutes.
fourth-seeded Caroline Garcia of France, qualifier Katherine Sebov of Canada; 5th seed the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the Czech Tereza Martincova; the ninth seed, the Russian Veronika Kudermetova, the Belgian Maryna Zanevska; The Swiss Belinda Bencic, 12th seed, defeated the Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova; Estonian Anett Kontaveit, seeded number 16, defeated Austrian Julia Grabher in 2-0 sets and advanced to the second round.
26th seed Elise Mertens of Belgium defeated 58th seed Garbine Muguruza of Spain, the finalist of the 2020 tournament, 2-1 (3-6, 7-6, 6-1).
In the matches that stand out tomorrow in the tournament, the 1st seeds will be the Spanish Rafael Nadal and the American Mackenzie Mcdonald in the men’s singles, the world number 1 the Polish Iga Swiatek and the Colombian Camila Osorio in the women’s singles will be on the court . (AA)