Harboursport - Australian Open, Day 4 2009.

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TENNIS

AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Day 4 review - Thursday 22nd January 2009.

SEEDWATCH - Mens Singles

1 – Rafael Nadal (ESP) - Through to Round 3
2 – Roger Federer (SUI) – Through to Round 3
3 – Novak Djokovic (SRB) – Through to Round 3
4 – Andy Murray (GBR) - Through to Round 3
5 – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) - Through to Round 3
6 – Gilles Simon (FRA) - Through to Round 3
7 – Andy Roddick (USA) – Through to Round 3
8 – Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) – Through to Round 3
9 – James Blake (USA) - Through to Round 3
10 – David Nalbandian (ARG) – Eliminated Round 2
11 – David Ferrer (ESP) – Through to Round 3
12 – Gael Monfils (FRA) - Through to Round 3
13 – Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) - Through to Round 3
14 – Fernando Verdasco (ESP) - Through to Round 3
15 – Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) – Through to Round 3
16 – Robin Soderling (SWE) – Eliminated Round 2
17 – Nicolas Almagro (ESP) - Through to Round 3
18 – Igor Andreev (RUS) - Through to Round 3
19 – Marin Cilic (CRO) – Through to Round 3
20 – Tomas Berdych (CZE) – Through to Round 3
21 – Tommy Robredo (ESP) – Through to Round 3
22 – Radek Stepanek (CZE) - Through to Round 3
23 – Mardy Fish (USA) – Through to Round 3
24 – Richard Gasquet (FRA) - Through to Round 3
25 – Ivo Karlovic (CRO) - Eliminated Round 2
26 – Marat Safin (RUS) – Through to Round 3
27 – Feliciano Lopez (ESP) – Eliminated Round 1
28 – Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) – Eliminated Round 2
29 – Dmitry Tursinov (RUS) - Eliminated Round 1
30 – Rainier Schuettler (GER) - Eliminated Round 1
31 – Jurgen Melzer (AUT) - Through to Round 3
32 – Philipp Kolschreiber (GER) – Eliminated Round 2

SEEDWATCH - Womens Singles

1 – Jelena Jankovic (SRB) – Through to Round 3
2 – Serena Williams (USA) - Through to Round 3
3 – Dinara Safina (RUS) – Through to Round 3
4 – Elena Dementieva (RUS) - Through to Round 3
5 – Ana Ivanovic (SRB) – Through to Round 3
6 – Venus Williams (USA) - Eliminated Round 2
7 – Vera Zvonareva (RUS) – Through to Round 3
8 – Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) - Through to Round 3
9 – Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) - Eliminated Rnd 1
10 – Nadia Petrova (RUS) – Through to Round 3
11 – Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) – Through to Round 3
12 – Flavia Pennetta (ITA) - Through to Round 3
13 – Victoria Azarenka (BLR) - Through to Round 3
14 – Patty Schnyder (SUI) - Eliminated Round 2
15 – Alize Cornet (FRA) – Through to Round 3
16 – Marion Bartoli (FRA) – Through to Round 3
17 – Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) – Eliminated Round 2
18 – Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) - Through to Round 3
19 – Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) – Through to Round 3
20 – Amelie Mauresmo (FRA) - Through to Round 3
21 – Anabel Medina Garriques (ESP) - Thru to Rnd 3
22 – Jie Zheng (CHN) - Through to Round 3
23 – Agnes Szavay (HUN) – Eliminated Round 1.
24 – Sybille Bammer (AUT) – Eliminated Round 1.
25 – Kaia Kanepi (EST) – Through to Round 3
26 – Ai Sugiyama (JPN) – Through to Round 3
27 – Maria Kirilenko (RUS) – Eliminated Round 1.
28 – Francesca Schiavone (ITA) - Eliminated Round 1
29 – Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) – Through to Round 3
30 – Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) - Eliminated Round 1
31 – Alona Bondarenko (UKR) - Through to Round 3
32 – Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) - Eliminated Rnd 1

There haven't been many upsets so far, but the biggest boilover of the tournament to date took place
during the night session at Rod Laver Arena. Wimbledon champion, 6th seed Venus Williams, was the
hottest of favourites against unfancied Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro, and everything looked to be going
according to script when Williams breezed through the first set 6-2.
But suddenly Navarro found her way back into the contest, breaking Williams in the opening game of the
second set. A second break was to come soon after, and although Williams got one break back it wasn't
enough to prevent the match going to a decider. The final set was one of fluctuating fortunes, with both
players swapping service breaks; but Navarro breaking again gave her a 6-5 advantage, and despite
being taken to deuce several times she held her nerve and served out the match.
Most of the other seeds had a relatively easy time, but Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was kept on court for 4 hours
by a plucky Ivan Ljubicic, with the Croat taking the first set 7-6 and forcing the second and third sets to
tie-breaks. But once Tsonga took the lead by winning the third set tie-break he was able to press home
his advantage to take the match in the fourth set.
Chris Guccione, the last Australian in the mens' singles draw, bowed out of the championships; but not
without putting up a fight against Frenchman Gilles Simon. Guccione took the first set in a tie-breaker,
but dropping his serve in the 10th game of the second set was the end of Guccione's fight; and from
there it was only a matter of time before Simon closed out the match.
Samantha Stosur joined Jelena Dokic in the third round, keeping the Aussie womens' charge going with
a straight-sets win over Germany's Sabine Lisicki.

The Aussies
Mens Singles, Second Round
6 - Gilles Simon(FRA) d Chris Guccione(AUS) 6-7 6-4 6-1 6-2

Womens Singles, Second Round
12 - Flavia Pennetta(ITA) d Jessica Moore(AUS) 6-4 6-1
Samantha Stosur(AUS) d Sabine Lisicki(GER) 6-3 6-4

Mens Doubles, First Round
8 - Marcelo Melo(BRA)/Andre Sa(BRA) d Matthew Ebden(AUS)/Brydan Klein(AUS) 6-2 7-6
Adam Feeney(AUS)/Robert Smeets(AUS) d Guillermo Canas(ARG)/Marat Safin(RUS) 6-4 6-1
Andrew Coelho(AUS)/Joseph Sirianni(AUS) d Guillermo Garcia-Lopez(ESP)/Victor Hanescu(ROU)
6-7                      6-1 6-4
Rik De Voest(RSA)/Ashley Fisher(AUS) d Nicolas Devilder(FRA)/Paul-Henri Mathieu(FRA) 6-3 6-2
Paul Hanley(AUS)/Jordan Kerr(AUS) d Oscar Hernandez(ESP)/Albert Montanes(ESP) 6-3 6-4

Womens Doubles, First Round
9 - Daniela Hantuchova(SVK)/Ai Sugiyama(JPN) d Isabella Holland(AUS)/Sally Peers(AUS) 6-1 6-1
11 - Nuria Llagostera Vives(ESP)/Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez(ESP) d Tyra
Calderwood(AUS)/                                    Shannon Golds(AUS) 6-1 6-1
13 -Victoria Azarenka(BLR)/Vera Zvonareva(RUS)dBrittany Sheed(AUS)/Bryanne Stewart(AUS) 6-2 6-1
Alize Cornet(FRA)/Camille Pin(FRA) d Nicole Kriz(AUS)/Anna Wishink(AUS) 6-1 6-2
Edina Gallovits(ROU)/Arantxa Parra Santonja(ESP) d Monique Adamczak(AUS)/Olivia
Rogowska                                (AUS) 5-7 6-2 6-4

The Seeds
Mens Singles, Second Round
1 - Rafael Nadal(ESP) d Roko Karanusic(CRO) 6-2 6-3 6-2
4 - Andy Murray(GBR) d Marcel Granollers(ESP) 6-4 6-2 6-2
5 - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga(FRA) d Ivan Ljubicic(CRO) 6-7 7-6 7-6 6-2
9 - James Blake(USA) d Sebastien De Chaunac(FRA) 6-3 6-2 6-3
12 - Gael Monfils(FRA) d Stefan Koubek(AUT) 6-4 6-4 3-6 6-2
13 - Fernando Gonzalez(CHI) d Guillermo Canas(ARG) 7-5 6-3 6-4
14 - Fernando Verdasco(ESP) d Arnaud Clement(FRA) 6-1 6-1 6-2
17 - Nicolas Almagro(ESP) d Fabio Fognini(ITA) 6-2 7-5 6-0
18 - Igor Andreev(RUS) d Ernests Gulbis(LAT) 6-4 6-4 5-7 3-6 6-4
22 - Radek Stepanek(CZE) d Michael Berrer(GER) 6-3 6-2 6-7 7-5
24 - Richard Gasquet(FRA) d Denis Istomin(UZB) 6-3 6-4 6-4
Mario Ancic(CRO) d 25 - Ivo Karlovic(CRO) 5-7 7-5 4-6 6-4 6-3
31 - Jurgen Melzer(AUT) d Andreas Beck(GER) 5-7 7-6 6-4 6-3

Womens Singles, Second Round
2 - Serena Williams(USA) d Gisela Dulko(ARG) 6-3 7-5
4 - Elena Dementieva(RUS) d Iveta Benesova(CZE) 6-4 6-1
Carla Suarez Navarro(ESP) d 6 - Venus Williams(USA) 2-6 6-3 7-5
8 - Svetlana Kuznetsova(RUS) d Tatjana Malek(GER) 6-2 6-2
13 - Victoria Azarenka(BLR) d Tathiana Garbin(ITA) 4-1 ret.
Virginie Razzano(FRA) d 14 - Patty Schnyder(SUI) 6-3 6-1
18 - Dominika Cibulkova(SVK) d Yung-Jan Chan(TPE) 6-0 6-2
20 - Amelie Mauresmo(FRA) d Elena Baltacha(GBR) 4-6 6-3 6-2
21 - Anabel Medina Garrigues(ESP) d Julie Coin(FRA) 6-1 6-4
22 - Jie Zheng(CHN) d Melinda Czink(HUN) 7-6 5-7 6-3
31 - Alona Bondarenko(UKR) d Severine Bremond(FRA) 7-6 1-6 6-2

Mens Doubles, First Round
1 - Daniel Nestor(CAN)/Nenad Zimonjic(SRB) d Jeremy Chardy(FRA)/Gilles Simon(FRA) 6-3 6-2
3 - Mahesh Bhupathi(IND)/Mark Knowles(BAH) d Mikhail Youzhny(RUS)/Mischa Zverev(GER) 6-3 6-2
4 - Lukas Dlouhy(CZE)/Leander Paes(IND) d Yves Allegro(SUI)/Fabrice Santoro(FRA) 4-6 6-1 6-2
Andrei Pavel(ROU)/Horia Tecau(ROU) d 10 - Simon Aspelin(SWE)/Pavel Vizner(CZE) 6-1 7-6
11 - Martin Damm(CZE)/Robert Lindstedt(SWE) d David Ferrer(ESP)/Daniel Gimeno-Traver(ESP)
2-6                              6-3 6-4
Nicolas Lapentti(ECU)/Tommy Robredo(ESP) d 16 - Eric Butorac(USA)/Jamie Murray(GBR) 6-4 6-4

Womens Doubles, First Round
1 - Cara Black(ZIM)/Liezel Huber(USA) d Anna Chakvetadze(RUS)/Alisa Kleybanova(RUS) 6-2 6-3
2 - Anabel Medina Garrigues(ESP)/Virginia Ruano Pascual(ESP) d Dominika
Cibulkova(SVK)/Virginie                              Razzano(FRA) 6-1 6-3
3 - Kveta Peschke(CZE)/Lisa Raymond(USA) d Sara Errani(ITA)/Karin Knapp(ITA) 7-6 6-3
14 - Sorana Cirstea(ROU)/Monica Niculescu(ROU) d Julie Ditty(USA)/Carly Gullickson(USA) 6-3 2-6 6-3

The Others
Mens Singles, Second Round
Tommy Haas(GER) d Flavio Cipolla(ITA) 6-1 6-2 6-1
Dudi Sela(ISR) d Victor Hanescu(ROU) 6-3 6-3 6-2

Womens Singles, Second Round
Shuai Peng(CHN) d Sesil Karatantcheva(BUL) 6-4 6-0
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez(ESP) d Akgul Amanmuradova(UZB) 6-2 6-4
Kateryna Bondarenko(UKR) d Lourdes Dominguez Lino(ESP) 7-5 7-5

Mens Doubles, First Round
Simone Bolelli(ITA)/Andreas Seppi(ITA) d Michael Kohlmann(GER)/Kristof Vliegen(BEL) 7-6 7-5
Mardy Fish(USA)/John Isner(USA) d Julian Knowle(AUT)/Jurgen Melzer(AUT) 7-6 7-6
Lukasz Kubot(POL)/Oliver Marach(AUT) d Yen-Hsun Lu(TPE)/Rainer Schuettler(GER) 6-2 6-1
Rajeev Ram(USA)/Bobby Reynolds(USA) d Dusan Vemic(SRB)/Lovro Zovko(CRO) 4-6 6-4 6-2
Lucas Arnold Ker(ARG)/Juan Monaco(ARG) d Janko Tipsarevic(SRB)/Viktor Troicki(SRB) 6-3 7-6

Womens Doubles, First Round
Vera Dushevina(RUS)/Olga Savchuk(UKR) d Vania King(USA)/Sania Mirza(IND) 4-6 6-1 6-1
Andrea Hlavackova(CZE)/Lucie Hradecka(CZE) d Ekaterina Dzehalevich(BLR)/Vladimira
Uhlirova(CZE)                         6-3 7-5
Lucie Safarova(CZE)/Galina Voskoboeva(KAZ) d Marina Erakovic(NZL)/Jelena Kostanic
Tosic(CRO)                               6-2 6-2
Alla Kudryavtseva(RUS)/Ekaterina Makarova(RUS) d Shahar Peer(ISR)/Caroline Wozniacki(DEN)
6-2                             6-3
Akgul Amanmuradova(UZB)/Tsvetana Pironkova(BUL) d Mathilde Johansson(FRA)/Selima
Sfar(TUN)                            6-4 6-3