2013 Australian Open

[matt_897]

We will have an official thread for predictions and bracket tipping won't we?

Yeah, the tennis tipping comp will contiune and there will also be a bracket challenge but the draw doesn't come out till Friday.

Nice to see a few of these aussies take advantage of their good draws in the qualies. Barton through now as well. Kyrigos looks like he's about to be knocked out though. there is live streaming on the australian open website for qualifying

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

Sally Peers, after beating a well ranked Kleybanova a couple of years ago, demolishing a decent opponent in the 1R of US and following up by doing ok against Clijsters just got double bagelled in the first round of quallies. Honestly what on earth happened to her?? How did she even get a WC anyway when I'm pretty sure she doesn't even do shit at the Aussie tournaments now??

 

[matt_897]

She has just really dropped in form. Hasn't really been the same for a while.

 

[juzzo]

Isner officially withdraws.

 

[Hawkas1988]

Isner officially withdraws.

Disappointing for him, he was interviewed just the other day on FOX Sports News and talking about how he was pretty sure the knee would be fine. Seems like a real nice guy too

 

[Hawkas1988]

Any Queenslanders on here that can tell me whether the Oz Open is televised FTA all day like it is down here in Melbourne? I'll be holidaying up there the first week and want to know if it will be on TV so I can watch during my relaxing times or when I'm not at the theme parks

 

[juzzo]

Haha check this guy out

 

[Selective Retention]

You've never come across Dustin Brown before?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/sports/tennis/21brown.html?_r=0

 

[Sir Vlado]

Easy not to, he's a challenger level player after all. Has a cool game though.

 

[damochandler]

Any Queenslanders on here that can tell me whether the Oz Open is televised FTA all day like it is down here in Melbourne? I'll be holidaying up there the first week and want to know if it will be on TV so I can watch during my relaxing times or when I'm not at the theme parks

starts at 9:30 and ends at 6 and then go to 7two and back to 7 at 7

 

[Hawkas1988]

starts at 9:30 and ends at 6 and then go to 7two and back to 7 at 7

oh perfect! Glad to hear that's the case!

 

[OzBomber]

Hewitt playing Janko Tipsarovic first up. If he beats him then it looks like his draw opens right up. Would potentially meet Almagro in the 4th round and Ferrer in the quarters, so Hewitt may have one last GS run left in him.

 

[Selective Retention]

Yeah a horror draw apparently, but drawing an over ranked top 8 seed like Tipsy is good for a deep run, beat him and then you get his seeded draw to the quarters. Benneteau and Dimitrov a tough 1st round match in Hewitt's quarter.

 

[Kaan]

Hewitt playing Janko Tipsarovic first up. If he beats him then it looks like his draw opens right up. Would potentially meet Almagro in the 4th round and Ferrer in the quarters, so Hewitt may have one last GS run left in him.

Slow down.

 

[Kaan]

Hewitt vs Tipsarevic will be a 5 setter, absolutely no doubt about it. Could go either way.

Also Tomic vs Federer rematch of last year in the 3rd round if they make it.

 

[OzBomber]

Slow down.

'Potentially', slow down. He's in one of the easiest quarters of the whole draw, so no reason why he can't do a Wimby 09' type run again.

 

[tazzietiger]

John Millman plays Tatsuma Ito who he played in R1 in Brisbane and beat.

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

Omg, gonna be barracking hard for Lleyton against that shifty bugger Tipsarevic. Other matches of note:
Jarka v Wickmayer - tough one, although I think Jarka actually beat her last year?
Mitchell v Duckworth - nooo why'd they draw eachother... Probably their best chance of advancing though.
Millman v Ito - Johnny beat him at Brussy well.
Stosur v Chan - don't know who she is, but she'll probably win anyway.
Barty v Cibulkova - Domi's in great form....
Ebden drew a seed....
Woz v Lisicki will be very interesting, will Woz do another 1r gs exit?

 

[tasmanlvr]

Wozniacki V Lisicki in the first round, probs outside court - and I don't think many will be there for the tennis.

Also a great match up in the women's draw on day 1 and probably (hopefully) on an outside court is Schiavone V Kvitova - how often do you see two Grand Slam champions on an outside court? Would be amazing!

Day 1 should be reasonable then...

 

[tazzietiger]

Sam Stosur could face Jie Zheng again in 2R if Sam wins and Jie beats the Chinese wildcard winner Yuxuan Zhang.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

You've never come across Dustin Brown before?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/sports/tennis/21brown.html?_r=0

Watched him play doubles last year.

He hit a return that would have been pushing 190km/h.

 

[Sir Vlado]

Would be excellent to see Millman win a round, he's got a very good chance with the form he's been in.

Stosur v Chan - don't know who she is, but she'll probably win anyway.

Stosur did indeed lose to Chang in Osaka last year.

 

[Chris_2593]

Rod Laver Arena 11:00AM:

(1) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) Vs Monica Niculescu (ROU)
(1) Novak Djokovic (SRB) Vs Paul Henri-Mathieu (FRA)
(3) Serena Williams (USA) Vs Edina Gallovits-Hall (ROU)

7:00PM:

(10) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) Vs Sabine Lisicki (GER)
(8) Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) Vs Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)

Hisense Arena 11:00AM:

(8) Petra Kvitova (CZE) Vs Francesa Schiavone (ITA)
(23) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) Vs Matthew Ebden (AUS)
(20) Yanina Wickmayer (BLR) Vs (WC) Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)
(5) Tomas Berdych (CZE) Vs Michael Russell (USA)

Magaret Court Arena 11:00AM:

(4) David Ferrer (ESP) Vs Oliver Rochus (BEL)
(7) Sara Errani (ITA) Vs Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)
(31) Radek Stepanek (CZE) Vs Viktor Troicki (SRB)
(12) Nadia Petrova (RUS) Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)

7:00PM:

(32) Julien Benneteau (FRA) Vs Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)


Show Court 2 11:00AM:

Vania King (USA) Vs (14) Maria Kirilenko (RUS)
(WC) John Millman (AUS) Vs Tatsuma Ito (JPN)
(17) Lucie Safarova (CZE) Vs Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO)
(22) Fernando Verdasco (ESP) Vs David Goffin (BEL)

Show Court 3 11:00AM:

(26) Jurgen Melzer (AUT) Vs Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ)
(29) Sloane Stephens (USA) Vs Simona Halep (ROU)
(28) Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) Vs Albert Ramos (ESP)
(16) Roberta Vinci (ITA) Vs Silva Soler-Espinosa (ESP)

Thats what i think the OOP will look like for Monday on the main courts. Feel free to post your on. It will be fun to see who can get the closest.

 

[juzzo]

Dolgopolov - Monfils is another good one.

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

Stosur's draw is actually good. A shame she's so completely out of form. I guess you never know, one win might get the monkey off the back a bit but I think she's dug herself too much of a mental hole to get out of. Maybe Bernie can take all the attention for her and she can go under the radar a bit...