Maria Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Roger Federer breeze into next round. Agnieszka Radwanska needs 3 sets to overcome Yulia Putintseva.
Seeds upsets:
Elena Svitolina def Svetlana Kuznetsova (19), Garbine Muguruza def Kaia Kanepi (24), Marina Erakovic def Sorana Cirstea (21), Martin Klizan def John Isner (13)
Match of the day: Gilles Simon defeats Daniel Brands 6-7 6-4 3-6 6-3 16-14
Simon saves 7 match points and wins after 4 hours and 32 minutes of play.
Australian player of the day: Lleyton Hewitt
The recent Brisbane champion rallied from two sets down but lost in 5 sets and 4 hours and 18 minutes to 24th seed Andreas Seppi. The Australian Open is not over for Hewitt yet, as he’ll play doubles with Pat Rafter.
Video highlights:
Stat of the day: 6
6 players retired today: Bernard Tomic, Robin Haase, Julian Reister, John Isner, Radek Stepanek and Polona Hercog who retired after only one game! That makes 9 retirements in the first round with the retirements of Andrey Golubev, Tommy Haas and Alex Bogomolov and yesterday. I guess it must be some kind of record.
Pic of the day: Svetlana Kuznetsova
wearing her Qiaodan dress. Fashion hit or miss?
Video of the day: Thanasi Kokkinakis victory lap
Matches to follow on Day 3:
Hewitt/Rafter – Butorac/Klaasen
Nikolay Davydenko – Richard Gasquet (8)
Sam Querrey – Ernests Gulbis (23)
Former number 7 Patty Schnyder played the last match of her career yesterday. She was defeated by Sorana Cirstea in straight sets 1-6 3-6.
A talented left-hander, she has won 11 WTA singles titles and 5 WTA doubles titles, and reached the Australian Open semifinals in 2004.
A few pics of Patty training at Roland Garros on Sunday.
Wheelchair tennis
After these entertaining doubles matches, I headed to number 7 court, for some wheelchair tennis.
There are only a few differences between tennis and wheelchair tennis:
– the player is allowed two bounces of the ball. The second bounce can be either in or out of the court boundaries
– the wheelchair is considered part of the body
Some photos and videos of Mickaël Jérémiasz, former world number one in singles and doubles.
