On January 17, 2022, the Australian Open kicked off, the two seeded players in the men's singles were out, the British star Nori lost to the American rising star Koda, the South African player Hasri lost to the local player Wudzic, and Nadal won a big victory, eliminating the American Player Geelong in three straight sets.
Spain's Nadal is the 6th seed of the tournament, has won the Grand Slam men's singles championship 20 times in his career, but his home is still the French Open, the Australian Open champion has only won one, 13 years ago in the final victory over Federer, Djokovic withdrew from the game, Nadal is the only former tournament champion, whether he can achieve another good result has attracted everyone's attention, the first round opponent is Geelong from the United States.
At the beginning of the game, Nadal scored 4 points in a row to complete the hold, showing a good competitive state, and then Geelong struggled to save the serve, the two sides played a draw, the next game became a performance of Nadal, he broke twice, won five consecutive sets to take the lead 6-1, through the performance of both sides in the first set, it is not difficult to see that Geelong's comprehensive strength is limited, it is difficult to bring too much impact to Nadal.
In the second set, Nadal relied on the break in the first set to expand the lead 6-4, and then Nadal took advantage of the chase, banged out 6-2 to end the game, and finally eliminated Giron 3-0, advanced to the second round of the Australian Open men's singles, and won the opening.
No. 7 seeded Italian brother Berrettini defeated Midi Brandon 4-6/6-2/7-6(5)/6-3, No. 14 seedEd Canada's Shapovalov eliminated Jerry 7-6(3)/6-4/3-6/7-6(3) and Chilean-16go Garin defeated Bagnis 6-3/6-4/5-7/6-7(4)/6-3.
The 17th seed France brother Monfils defeated Koria 6-1, 6-1, 6-3, and the 28th seedEd Russian Khachanov defeated Kudra 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (2).
Two seeded players stopped the first round of the Australian Open, american rising star Koda swept the 12th seed British nori 6-3, 6-0/ 6-4, and Australian Wu Jiqi, who was playing with a wild card, defeated the 30th seed South African brother Harris 4-6/6-3/7-5/7-6 (3).
Zheng Saisai temporarily decided to withdraw due to injury, Japan's Hibino Caixu became the lucky loser, substitute against Italy's Trevisan, while her and Wang Xinyu's doubles can only be disqualified, Zheng Qinwen eliminated Sasnovic 6-3/1-6/7-6 (5) after the promotion, China Jinhua has two games today, namely Wang Qiang vs. Gauff and Wang Xiyu against Kuzmova.
Tunisian sister Abdul-Jabbar also made a decision, the No. 9 seed announced that she would abandon the Australian Open, and her signing was replaced by the lucky loser Bala.