Three minutes a day to know about tennis in the world. Hello fans and friends, today is Wednesday, January 19, 2022, welcome to listen to the news noonday news provided by Tennis House.
Beijing time last night, the second matchday of the Australian Open ended. On the men's side, most of the high-ranked players who played on the day won and advanced, and there was no big upset. Russian duos Medvedev and Rublev performed steadily, winning successively to advance. Among them, May beat the Swiss LaKassuna 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (3) and Rublev beat the Italian Maguer 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Greek rising star Tsitsipas, who played at night, also fought without bloodshed, beating Swede Imel 6-2, 6-4, 6-3.
Britain's Murray, who played with a wild card, suffered a five-set marathon battle that took 3 hours and 52 minutes, and finally won the key break in the decider to defeat Georgia's Bahirashvili 6-1, 3-6/6-4/6-7 (5)/6-4 to advance to the second round.
The two post-00s players who played on the day both won the game to advance, with Italy's nova Sinar beating Portugal's Sousa 6-4, 7-5, 6-1, and Canada's nova Aliassim 6-4/0-6/3-6-3/6-4 swallowing the egg to reverse Finland's brother Rusuwori. Kyrgios, a local player who played in the night, defeated qualifier Browdy 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 to face Medvedev in the second round.
Others who advanced were American Crecy, who defeated his compatriot Isner in five sets, Argentinian short-footed Tiger Schwartzman, Spain's Agut, French veteran Gasquet who reversed his brother Amber in four sets, Evans the Englishman, Dimitrov of Bulgaria and Parret of France. Norway's rising star Rudd, who was scheduled to play on the day, sadly announced his retirement due to an accidental ankle injury during training.
In the women's singles, Zhang Shuai, a veteran Chinese player who played on the day, defeated the Swiss Personality Lubić 6-3, 6-4, and then the youngster Wang Xinyu defeated the Chinese-American Ann Lee 7-6 (5)/6-3. So far, the five Chinese female players (Zheng Qinwen, Wang Qiang, Wang Xiyu, Zhang Shuai and Wang Xinyu) who played in the first round of the Australian Open women's singles have won a big victory and all advanced to the second round, creating the history of the Chinese women's tennis team playing in Grand Slam tournaments.
In other matches, in a focus match between two US Open women's singles champions, British rising star Raducannu eliminated American Stephens with a slightly exaggerated score of 6-0, 2-6, 6-1, and will play against The Black Poinschin Kovinic in the second round. The US Open runner-up and Canadian rising star Fernandez unexpectedly lost 4-6, 2-6 to qualifier Ingris, making his debut.
Former Australian Open champion German Korber lost 4-6, 3-6 to Estonian Canepi, making a round of the Australian Open for two consecutive years. Belarusian Sabalenka defeated homegrown wild card player Sanders 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 against Chinese teenager Wang Xinyu in the next round.
Other winners were American Collins, Croatian Konyu, Czech Butzkova, Danish rising star Towson, Russian Kasakina, Romanian star Halep and so on.
At 8:00 a.m. Beijing time this morning, the third matchday of the Australian Open began. On the men's side, Spanish war god Nadal will face German qualifier Wolfman at noon Beijing time, and German Zverev Jr. will face homegrown player Mirman around 5 p.m. Beretini, Shapovalov, Monfils and other famous players will also play.
On the women's side, China has six players playing in singles and doubles. Wang Qiang and Wang Xiyu faced Belgian Uitfank and French Open champion Kregitckova at around 11:30 p.m. Beijing time, respectively, and Zheng Qinwen played against a Greek sister, Sakkari, at around 4 p.m.
As of press time, Spanish star Bardoza, Belarusian star Azarenka, Italian Giorgi, Ukrainian cabbage Svitolina and rising star Kosczyk had won the second round to advance to the women's singles round of 32. In the doubles arena, Xu Yipan / Yang Zhaoxuan defeated Kenning / Pudinseva in three sets in the first round of the matchup this morning Beijing time, and successfully advanced. The golden duo of Zhang Shuai/Stosur will appear around 11:00 p.m. against Maria/Kato Weiwei.
Finally, let's guess and recognize. The image below is a silhouette of a player hitting the ball during a match. Without prompting, can you recognize who he is?
Guess last time, the golfer gave the correct answer. Yes, the person on the picture is the Norwegian rising star Ruud who quit the Australian Open the day before due to injury. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Maverick)
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