On January 18, Beijing time, the 2022 Australian Open entered the second match day, and the men's singles and women's singles players in the lower half of the competition began the first round of competition. Medvedev, Tsitsipas, Rublev, Sabarenka, Svatek, Halep and other famous players all advanced. Kvitova and Korbel were unexpectedly upset and suffered a round of travel.
In the men's terms, the No. 2 seed of the tournament at rodrawall Stadium, Russian Medvedev defeated Switzerland's Rakossonnan in three straight sets to beat Switzerland's Rakossonnan in three straight sets to advance to the second round; the No. 4 seed, Greece's Tsitsipas swept Sweden's M. Imer 6-2, 6-4, 6-3; and the No. 5 seed Rublev also won in three sets to beat Italy's Maj with a score of 6-3, 6-2/ 6-2.
The 9th seed Aliassim defeated Rusuvuori 6-4, 0-6/3-6/6-6/6-6-6-6-4 after five sets, The 11th seed Sinar defeated the lucky loser Sousa 6-4, 7-5, 6-1 and the 13th seed Schwartzman defeated Serbian Krajinovic 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
Three-time Grand Slam champion Murray, who played with a wild card, went through five hard sets to eliminate 21st seed Basrashvili 6-1, 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5)/ 6-4, winning the Australian Open for the second time in five years, and it was also Murray's 49th victory at the Australian Open.
Results of other key competitions:
Kyrgios 6-4/6-4/6-3 Brody [Q]
Agut 7-6/6-4/5-7/6-1 Taravajira
Cilic 6-2/ 6-1/ 6-2 Gomez
Korshree 6-4/7-5/7-6(0) Cecinato
DeMinal [32] 3-6/6-3/6-0/6-3 Musetti
Tiafo 3-6/6-4/6-2/3-6/6-3 Tranjeridi
In women's singles, No. 2 seed Sabalenka overcame the disadvantage of falling behind in one set and a break, and with nine consecutive innings of attack waves, finally reversed the local Waika Sanders 5-7, 6-3, 6-2. The first victory of the new season was won; the 3rd seed Mugulaza 6-3, 6-4 night France's Birerer successfully advanced to the second round; the 7th seed Swatek won 11 consecutive sets after falling behind 1-3 in the opening, and finally swept the qualifier Dart 6-3, 6-0;
No. 14 seed Halep went down five consecutive sets after 1-3 in the second set to beat Polish player Fletcher 6-4, 6-3 to achieve a six-game winning streak in the new season. The 10th seed Pavlyutchenkova swept Bondar, who played for the first time in a Grand Slam regular tournament, 6-2, and the 17th seed Radulcanu defeated fellow US Open champion Stephens 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 to win 11 consecutive Grand Slam matches while ending his three-year-old New Year's Eve defeat.
Former tournament champion and 16th seed Kerber lost 4-6, 3-6 to Estonia's Canepi, on his 34th birthday encountered a round trip to the Australian Open, the German also failed to pass the first round here for two consecutive years; 2-time Grand Slam champion, Czech Kvitova lost 2-6, 2-6 to Romania's Costia, after four years of encountering a round trip to the Australian Open, this year's Australian season only achieved a record of 1 win and 3 losses.
In terms of China's Jinhua, Zhang Shuai defeated Switzerland's Golubić 6-3, 6-4 in two straight sets to win the first singles win of the new season, winning the Australian Open again after two years; another Jinhua Wang Xinyu also won the victory, in the match with the American Li Ang, Wang Xinyu defeated the opponent 7-6 (5)/6-3, winning the first Grand Slam main tournament for the first time in his career. So far, the five golden flowers participating in the women's singles competition of this Australian Open have all won victories.
[25] Kasatkina 6-3/6-1 Voigler
【31】Wandrosova 6-2/6-3 Han Tianyu【W】
Reinet 6-4/ 7-5 Sevastova
Begu 2-6/7-5/6-3 Doding