Australian Open si-a consumat prima zi de intreceri, meciurile de la Melbourne aducand multe surprize pe cele doua tablouri de simplu. Au parasit competitia nume importante (capi de serie), iar Romania are deja o reprezentanta in turul doi: Monica Niculescu.
Turul I, masculin:
9-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - Marcos Baghdatis 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-2
24-Roberto Bautista - Martin Klizan 6-2 6-3 4-6 2-6 6-2
28-Andreas Seppi - Teymuraz Gabashvili 3-6 7-6(4) 6-4 7-6(10)
Marco Trungelliti - Jozef Kovalik 6-4 7-6(1) 7-5
Quentin Halys - Ivan Dodig 6-4 6-7(4) 6-4 7-5
29-Nick Kyrgios - Pablo Carreno 6-2 7-5 6-2
3-Roger Federer - Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-2 6-1 6-2
Omar Jasika - Illya Marchenko 6-4 3-6 6-0 6-4
27-Grigor Dimitrov - Paolo Lorenzi 6-3 7-6(8) 6-3
Noah Rubin - 17-Benoit Paire 7-6(4) 7-6(6) 7-6(5)
Pablo Cuevas - Yoshihito Nishioka 7-6(5) 6-1 6-4
Renzo Olivo - Jiri Vesely 7-6(8) 2-6 1-6 6-4 6-4
Dusan Lajovic - Sam Querrey 6-7(5) 4-6 6-4 6-2 (abandon Querrey)
Alexandr Dolgopolov - Ricardas Berankis 6-1 3-6 6-4 6-2
Pierre-Hugues Herbert - Pablo Andujar 5-7 6-4 7-6(5) 6-2
14-Gilles Simon - Vasek Pospisil 6-7(4) 6-3 6-2 6-4
1-Novak Djokovic - Chung Hyeon 6-3 6-2 6-4
Nicolas Almagro - Julien Benneteau 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 7-6(1)
Denis Kudla - Filip Krajinovic 6-2 6-1 0-0 (abandon Krajinovic)
12-Marin Cilic - Thiemo de Bakker 6-7(4) 7-5 6-2 6-4
26-Guillermo Garcia-Lopez - Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4 6-4 6-4
Albert Ramos - Borna Coric 6-2 6-2 6-3
Evgeny Donskoy - Inigo Cervantes 6-4 3-6 6-1 6-4
6-Tomas Berdych - Yuki Bhambri 7-5 6-1 6-2
Damir Dzumhur - Kyle Edmund 1-6 7-6(4) 4-6 6-3 6-1
19-Dominic Thiem - Leonardo Mayer 6-2 7-6(6) 4-6 7-6(0)
15-David Goffin - Sergiy Stakhovsky 3-6 6-3 6-4 6-4
Daniel Brands - Victor Estrella 6-4 7-6(1) 4-6 6-1
Mirza Basic - Robin Haase 7-6(4) 6-4 6-4
7-Kei Nishikori - Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4 6-3 6-3
Federico Delbonis - 22-Ivo Karlovic 7-6(4) 6-4 2-1 (abandon Karlovic)
Austin Krajicek - Wu Di 6-4 6-1 6-3.
Citeste aici o ampla prezentare a primului turneu de Grand Slam al anului, Australian Open.
Turul I, feminin:
Kristyna Pliskova - 25-Samantha Stosur 6-4 7-6(6)
Timea Babos - Heather Watson 6-7(4) 7-5 7-5
Elizaveta Kulichkova - 22-Andrea Petkovic 7-5 6-4
Ana Konjuh - Urszula Radwanska 0-6 6-4 6-3
5-Maria Sharapova - Nao Hibino 6-1 6-3
Eugenie Bouchard - Aleksandra Krunic 6-3 6-4
Monica Puig - Magda Linette 6-3 6-0
Irina Falconi - Anna Tatishvili 6-4 3-6 8-6
Kateryna Bondarenko - Ajla Tomljanovic 7-6(2) 6-3
Monica Niculescu- Teliana Pereira 6-2 6-1
Aliaksandra Sasnovich - Evgeniya Rodina 6-3 7-6(2)
Yulia Putintseva - 16-Caroline Wozniacki 1-6 7-6(3) 6-4
23-Svetlana Kuznetsova - Daniela Hantuchova 6-0 6-2
12-Belinda Bencic - Alison Riske 6-4 6-3
13-Roberta Vinci - Tamira Paszek 6-4 6-2
Han Xinyun - Mariana Duque 6-2 2-1 (abandon Duque)
4-Agnieszka Radwanska - Christina McHale 6-2 6-3
Kurumi Nara - Oceane Dodin 7-6(2) 6-2
Lauren Davis - 26-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1-6 6-3 6-4
Darya Kasatkina - 27-Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-3 6-3
Hsieh Su-Wei - Jelena Ostapenko 3-6 7-5 6-1
28-Kristina Mladenovic - Dominika Cibulkova 6-3 6-4
Wang Qiang - 24-Sloane Stephens 6-3 6-3
1-Serena Williams - Camila Giorgi 6-4 7-5
Maria Sakkari - Wang Yafan 6-4 1-6 6-3
Magdalena Rybarikova - Yanina Wickmayer 3-6 6-3 7-5
Anna-Lena Friedsam - Lourdes Dominguez Lino 7-6(3) 2-6 6-1
Margarita Gasparyan - 17-Sara Errani 1-6 7-5 6-1
Daria Gavrilova - Lucie Hradecka 7-6(3) 6-4
10-Carla Suarez Navarro - Viktorija Golubic 7-5 6-4
Nicole Gibbs - Klara Koukalova 6-2 2-6 6-1
6-Petra Kvitova - Luksika Kumkhum 6-3 6-1.
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