The men’s prime seeds will take to the court docket at Melbourne Park in the present day seeking to capitalize on the upsets on day 8. Play in the Australian Open Junior Championships most important draw begins Saturday (Friday night time within the United States). No. four seed Elli Mandlik defeated Charlotte Owensby 7-6, 6-three and will play the winner of tonight’s match between high seed Maria Osorio Serrano of Colombia and No. 5 seed Chloe Beck.
Tennis: Rafael Nadal has retired within the fifth set in opposition to Marin Cilic, after a hip problem left him looking in bodily ache. The second seed jumps forward to five-2 and can now serve for a place in the semi-finals. Zverev retired 48 minutes into his first round match whereas trailing Korean Hyeon Chung 6-2 4-1 at Melbourne Park final Tuesday night time.
The 15-year-previous finalised in Minsk, Belarus After unsuccessful autumn video games he obtained his first win at the USA F31 Futures in Bradenton, United States Within the new 2014 tour he started in Kazakhstan , reaching semifinal and closing within the two Future occasions in Aktobe , respectively.
The second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, who might return to the No 1 rating with a win here, performs Carla Suarez Navarro later in the evening. Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic defeats Venus Williams in straight units within the first spherical of the Australian Open as American women fall to 0-eight on Day 1 in Melbourne.
1) Sunday, August 5, 2012 – Hitler Performs USTA league tennis in Dallas – Unsure who produced this, but did create the rave in Dallas. Novak Djokovic strongly denied claims that he called for a boycott of subsequent year’s Australian Open and dismissed solutions that gamers ought to form their own union in a bid to earn elevated prize money on the four Grand Slam events.