Three players from Asia stunned the tennis world over the weekend by eliminating higher-ranked players. Youngsters Hyeon Chung from South Korea and Japan´s Noami Osaka reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time, while Taipei´s Su-Wei Hsieh followed them, a decade after making it to round four last.
The favourites keep rolling
As we enter into week two, the big names of the game, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, are still cruising fairly comfortable through the tournament.
´Rafa´, however, was challenged by Diego Schwartzman (Arg) over four hours last night
In the Women´s draw, Simona Halep, Caroline Wozniacki and Karolina Pliskova - all ranked in the Top 6 - are still on course.
Germany´s Angelique Kerber, currently number 21, had a convinicing straight-sets-win over Maria Sharapova.
Source: SBS
The Aussie drought prolongs
It´s been a drought of 41 years since an Australian lifted a singles title at their Home Grand Slam.
Chris O’Neill won the women’s singles in 1977.
High hopes were pinned on Nick Kyrgios, who faught well, but lost to Grigor Dimitrov in four sets last night.
With no Aussie left in the single´s draw, the drought continues...
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