At the Australian Open, Serena Williams is looking to defend her title while she also seeks a seventh crown at the year's first grand slam. There have been some concerns about her health as the highly dominant world number one has been bothered by her knee, but that would be hard to tell as she wipes the floor with Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei.
Serena Williams
Williams has only fallen in the second round of a grand Slam tournament twice in her career. And to no one's surprises, the American takes a 5-1 lead in the opening set, and with that backhand winner she seals the first frame with ease.
Williams had 26 winners, including seven aces in the match. And that includes this big overhead as she looks to serve out the match. And Williams would wrap it up exactly on the one hour mark with a stylish ace. The top seed will face Russia's Daria Kasatkina next, an 18-year-old who was interestingly born the year before Williams' first Australian Open.
Fifth seeded Russian gets her 50th win at tournament
Ealier Maria Sharapova was taking on Aliaksandra Sasnovich, The audible Russian would take a 5-1 lead in the first set, but a bit of confusion would ensue here on her first serve when the unpire first awards the game to Sasnovich. Maria doesn't say a word, just stares him down and the ump quickly corrects himself, and Sharapova serves her second and later wins the set 6-2.
The second frame would be similar and Sharapova now has match point. Sasnovich returns long and the Russian takes it 6-1 for a straight sets victory. Sharapova, who won the title in 2008 and has reached three other finals, completed the win in 71 minutes and is moving on to the third round.
Chinese qualifier eliminated in second round
Chinese qualifier Wang Qiang had a sensational opening round upset over Sloane Stephens, taking on Anna-Lena Friedsam, and the German wins the first set 6-3.
Ties at 2-2 in the second, Wang comes in for the kill, but instead finds the net. On match point, a big serve from Friedsam and Wang pops it up, and the German takes it in straight sets.
China's Han Xinyue is facing Russia's Yulia Putintseva right now on the the court, and Putintseva is leading 3-2 in the first set. Earlier Italy's Roberta Vinci beat Irina Falconi 6-2, 6-3. Kateryna Bondarenko notched one of her biggest wins, beating two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1, 7-5.
Swiss reaches third round with 25 ace domination
To the men's side now where Roger Federer aces Alexandr Dolgopolov to take the first set 6-3. The 27 year old Ukrainian would put up more of a fight in the second, but Feds still takes it 7-5.
It would be all Roger in the third as the Swiss sends a winner down the line to win the match in straight sets on the back of a beastly 25 aces as he seeks a fifth title in Melbourne.
Seventh seed into 3rd round for sixth-straight year
Japanese hope Kei Nishikori came out on top of an awkward match with his practice partner Austin Krajicek to reach the third round at the Australian Open.
The 7th seed advanced but not before a second set struggle, which wins here in a tiebreaker. And the Japanese would finish the 1 hr 53 min match on Margaret Court Arena with an ace. Nishikori will play either Spain's 26th seed Guillermo Garcia Lopez or German qualifier Daniel Brands next.
And 6th seeded Tom Berdych would easily handle qualifier Mirza Basic 6-4, 6-0, 6-3. Marin Cilic took down Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-4,6-3,7-6 and while David Goffin beat Damir Dzumhur in four sets.
Williams had 26 winners, including seven aces in the match. And that includes this big overhead as she looks to serve out the match. And Williams would wrap it up exactly on the one hour mark with a stylish ace. The top seed will face Russia's Daria Kasatkina next, an 18-year-old who was interestingly born the year before Williams' first Australian Open.
Fifth seeded Russian gets her 50th win at tournament
Ealier Maria Sharapova was taking on Aliaksandra Sasnovich, The audible Russian would take a 5-1 lead in the first set, but a bit of confusion would ensue here on her first serve when the unpire first awards the game to Sasnovich. Maria doesn't say a word, just stares him down and the ump quickly corrects himself, and Sharapova serves her second and later wins the set 6-2.
The second frame would be similar and Sharapova now has match point. Sasnovich returns long and the Russian takes it 6-1 for a straight sets victory. Sharapova, who won the title in 2008 and has reached three other finals, completed the win in 71 minutes and is moving on to the third round.
Chinese qualifier eliminated in second round
Chinese qualifier Wang Qiang had a sensational opening round upset over Sloane Stephens, taking on Anna-Lena Friedsam, and the German wins the first set 6-3.
Ties at 2-2 in the second, Wang comes in for the kill, but instead finds the net. On match point, a big serve from Friedsam and Wang pops it up, and the German takes it in straight sets.
China's Han Xinyue is facing Russia's Yulia Putintseva right now on the the court, and Putintseva is leading 3-2 in the first set. Earlier Italy's Roberta Vinci beat Irina Falconi 6-2, 6-3. Kateryna Bondarenko notched one of her biggest wins, beating two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1, 7-5.
Swiss reaches third round with 25 ace domination
To the men's side now where Roger Federer aces Alexandr Dolgopolov to take the first set 6-3. The 27 year old Ukrainian would put up more of a fight in the second, but Feds still takes it 7-5.
It would be all Roger in the third as the Swiss sends a winner down the line to win the match in straight sets on the back of a beastly 25 aces as he seeks a fifth title in Melbourne.
Seventh seed into 3rd round for sixth-straight year
Japanese hope Kei Nishikori came out on top of an awkward match with his practice partner Austin Krajicek to reach the third round at the Australian Open.
The 7th seed advanced but not before a second set struggle, which wins here in a tiebreaker. And the Japanese would finish the 1 hr 53 min match on Margaret Court Arena with an ace. Nishikori will play either Spain's 26th seed Guillermo Garcia Lopez or German qualifier Daniel Brands next.
And 6th seeded Tom Berdych would easily handle qualifier Mirza Basic 6-4, 6-0, 6-3. Marin Cilic took down Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-4,6-3,7-6 and while David Goffin beat Damir Dzumhur in four sets.
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