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Third-seeded Victoria
Azarenka won 12 straight games to finish off the opening match on
centre court at the Australian Open in 67 minutes on Monday, a 6-1, 6-0
victory over Heather Watson of Britain. In the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open Victoria Azreneka of Belarus overpowered Great Britain’s Heather Watson to move into the second round.
Playing at the Rod Laver Arena, Aerenka took just over an hour to dispatch Watson 6-1, 6-0. In the later half of the Day, China’s Li Na recovered from a slow start to down Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan 6-3,6-1 in stifling heat in the first round in the Womens singles at the Australian Open.
Fifth-seeded Li, the reigning French Open Champion and runner-up to Kim Clijsters in Melbourne last year, overcome the dangerous Pervak in 69 minutes.Belgium’s Kim Clijsters began her Australian Open defence with a straight-sets win over Portuguese qualifier Maria Joao Koehler.
Clijsters
won a surprisingly close first set before racing away with the second
to win 7-5, 6-1, showing no signs of the hip injury that forced her out
of the Brisbane International two weeks ago.
Argentina’s
world number 11 Juan Martin del Potro needed four sets and three hours
to reach the second round on a hot opening day at the Australian Open on
Monday.
The
former US Open champion dropped the opening set before carving out a
2-6, 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 victory over French world number 91 Adrian Mannarino
in just three hours on Hisense Arena.
Bernard Tomic thrilled the Melbourne crowd by hitting back from two sets down to stun 22nd seed Fernando Verdasco on the opening day of the Australian Open.
The
Australian number one, who won the warm-up event in Kooyong over the
weekend, looked destined to make an early exit when he fell behind in a
strangely lethargic opening before upping the aggression levels to
advance 4-6, 6-7, 6-2, 7-5.
Rafeal
Nadal too began his campaign hitting the right notes. The Spaniard won
against American player Alex Kuznetsov without breaking into sweat with a
6-4, 6-1, 6-1 scoreline.
Sania Mirza is struggling in the opening round in the womens singles against Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova. The Indian ace lost the first set 6-4, while trailing in the decisive 2nd set 2-5 when reports last came in.
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