Djokovic in the 3rd round – Wawrinka & Co. out

With Bianca Andreescu (CAN-8) and Petra Kvitova (CZE-9), two top ten players and Stan Wawrinka, the Swiss' strongest contribution in the absence of Roger Federer. After a great comeback and three missed match points en suite, “Stan the man” failed in the fifth set against Hungarian Marton Fucsovics. However, US star Serena Williams, a demanded defending champion Novak Djokovic (SRB-32) and last year's finalist Dominic Thiem, who was number 1, made it to the round of 3. While Thiem was in the third round, Djokovic had a very difficult time against the American Frances Tiafoe. It was 6:3,6:7(3),7:6(2),6:3 for Djokovic after three and a half hours. There was no happy ending for Stan Wawrinka. After a false start against Fucscovics, he was behind 5:7,1, 6:3 after two sets, saved himself from a 5:9 deficit in set five and won 6:36 in the match tiebreak played in the fifth set in Melbourne -Leadership out. However, the soon-to-be XNUMX-year-old Swiss didn't use any of the match points. After two five-set wins in a row, Fucscovics goes into the next duel against Canadian Milos Raonic as an outsider. Kvitova is also eliminated However, the 39-year-old Serena Williams had already safely reached the third round. The living US tennis legend, who wants to equal Margaret Court's Grand Slam record (24 titles) in Melbourne, defeated Serbian Nina Stojanovic 69:6:3,6 in 0 minutes. She will now face Russian Anastasia Potapova on Friday. With Andreescu, number 8, and number 9, Kvitova, the first top ten players had to say goodbye. The 2019 US Open winner lost to Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei 3:6,2:6. The 20-year-old Andreescu returned to Melbourne after a 15-month injury layoff due to knee problems. She was also one of the 72 players who were unable to train in advance in hard quarantine. And Kvitova surprisingly had to bow to the Romanian Sorana Cirstea 4:6,6:1,1:6. Even when she was already 40, Venus Williams showed great sportsmanship: Although she sprained her ankle against the Italian qualifier Sara Errana at the end of the first set, she remained limping on the court and was swept off the court 6:1,6:0. Serena's older sister had imagined the journey to the 88th Grand Slam differently. The men's number 8, on the other hand, roared into the round of 32: Diego Schwartzman from Argentina gave the French lucky loser Alexandre Muller no chance at 6:2,6:0,6:3. The Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, seeded number 20, also made clear progress, leaving the Australian James Duckworth only seven games. His compatriots Raonic (four-set win over Corentin Moutet/FRA) and Denis Shapovalov (only lost five games against Bernard Tomic/AUS) are also in round three.

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Djokovic in the 3rd round – Wawrinka & Co. out

Several Grand Slam champions were already eliminated on Wednesday, the third day of the Australian Open in Melbourne, worth the equivalent of 45,05 million euros.

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