AUSTRALIA OPEN 2010

So first day of Australia Open 2010 is behind us and the second in progress. I am excited tennis is back and ready for some cheering vamos Ferrero, vamos Ferrer. And on woman's side I am all the way behind Kim Clijsters. Go Kim!



So what happend in Australia so far:

Andy Roddick defeated Thiemo de Bakker in his first round 6:1, 6:4, 6:4, Feliciano Lopez also won in three sets deafeating Pablo Cuevas 6:1, 6:4, 7:5. Fernando Gonzales had to spend some more time on the tennis court for his win in four sets 6:3, 6:4, 3:6, 6:1. it also took 4 sets for Juan Martin Del Potro, whoa was playing with american Michael Russell to get through his first round match 6:4, 6:4, 3:6, 6:2. Andy Murray won in a fast three set match against Kevin Anderson 6:1, 6:1, 6:2 and similar goes for Ivan Ljubicic who won 6:1, 6:2 and 6:2 against Jason Kubler. Gael Monfils was able to finish his first round in 3 sets 6:4, 6:4, 6:4 over Matthew Ebden. My home country Slovenia also had a tennis player on the courts today but Blaz Kavcic lost in 4 sets 6:4, 1:4, 4:6, and 2:6 to Wayne Odesnik. And lets not forget Rafael Nadal who deafeted australian Peter Luczak 7:6, 6:1 and 6:4.


Some other winners today: Jarkko Nieminen, John Isner, Louk Sorensen, Ivo Karlovic in 5 sets, Andrey Golubev, Thomaz Bellucci, Tomas Berdych, Evgeny Korolev, Marsel Ilhan, Marin Cilic, Bernard Tomic, Igor Kunitsyn, Stanislas Wawrinka, Florian Mayer.



Woman's winners day1:
Elena Dementieva, Justine Henin, Ekaterina Makarova, Sara Errani, Yanina Wickmayer, Flavia Pennetta, Kim Clijsters - good job Kim :), Tamarine Tanasugarn, Nadia Petrova, Aravane Rezai, Angelique Kerber, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Katie O'Brien, Polona Hercog - really happy for Polona from Slovenia to win :) :), Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Jie Zheng, Sandra Zahlavova, Marion Bartoli, Maria Kirilenko, Yvonne Meusburger, Kateryna Bondarenko, Elena Baltacha, Barbora Zahlavova Strycova and number 2 Dinara Safina.


And now time for some more tennis for me :)

CONGRATULATION KIM AND JUAN MARTIN

Great tournaments and good matches. And amazing wins for Kim Clijsters and Juan Martin Del Potro who are 2009 Us Open Champions. CONGRATULATION!!!!

FERRERO AND KIM YOU GAVE ME A GREAT BIRTHDAY GIFT WITH YOUR WINS ;) :)

Juan Carlos Ferrero won after Giles Simon had to retire in fourth set 16 64 76(5) 10 and Kim Clijsters come back continues with a great win over one of the best woman tennis players Venus Williams. Great match too see. GOOOOOO JUAN CARLOS GOOOOOOO MAMA KIM!!!












In next round Juan Carlos will be playing with Juan Martin Del Potro who is playing really good so it will be a hard challenge but my fingers are still crossed from mosquito :). And Kim Clijsters will be playing Na Li in nxet round.








Scores - day7:

Men

Singles - Third Round

[2] A Murray (GBR) d [WC] T Dent (USA) 63 62 62
[3] R Nadal (ESP) d [32] N Almagro (ESP) 75 64 64
[6] J del Potro (ARG) d D Koellerer (AUT) 61 36 63 63
[7] J Tsonga (FRA) d J Benneteau (FRA) 76(4) 62 64
[24] J Ferrero (ESP) d [9] G Simon (FRA) 16 64 76(5) 10 ret. (right knee)
[11] F Gonzalez (CHI) d [17] T Berdych (CZE) 75 64 64
[13] G Monfils (FRA) d J Acasuso (ARG) 63 64 10 ret. (left leg)
[16] M Cilic (CRO) d D Istomin (UZB) 61 64 63


and woman

Singles - Fourth Round

(2) Serena Williams (USA) d. (22) Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 62 60
(WC) Kim Clijsters (BEL) d. (3) Venus Williams (USA) 60 06 64
(10) Flavia Pennetta (ITA) d. (7) Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 36 76(6) 60(
18) Li Na (CHN) d. (26) Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 62 63



ORDER OF PLAY FOR DAY8 ...... http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/schedule/index.html?promo=topnav


IT IS A TENNIS WORLD !!!

GOOD MATCHES TODAY AT US OPEN - DAY 6

Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic both had some strugles on the tennis court of the Us Open 2009 today, we also saw some good 5 set matches and probably the bigest upset was american Andy Roddick losing to John Isner in 5 set.


Todays results on the men site :

Singles - Third Round
[1] R Federer (SUI) d [31] L Hewitt (AUS) 46 63 75 64
[4] N Djokovic (SRB) d [Q] J Witten (USA) 67(2) 63 76(2) 64
J Isner (USA) d [5] A Roddick (USA) 76(3) 63 36 57 76(5)
[8] N Davydenko (RUS) d [Q] M Chiudinelli (SUI) 64 75 75
[10] F Verdasco (ESP) d [20] T Haas (GER) 36 75 76(8) 16 64
[12] R Soderling (SWE) d [22] S Querrey (USA) 62 75 67(8) 61
[14] T Robredo (ESP) d [21] J Blake (USA) 76(2) 64 64
[15] R Stepanek (CZE) d [23] P Kohlschreiber (GER) 46 62 63 63



And about the woman we just have to mention the amazing win of young american Melanie Oudin over Maria Sharapova in a long and exciting match. Other score for woman and Us Open day 6:

(6) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d. Shahar Peer (ISR) 75 61
(13) Nadia Petrova (RUS) d. (21) Zheng Jie (CHN) 64 61
Melanie Oudin (USA) d. (29) Maria Sharapova (RUS) 36 64 75
Gisela Dulko (ARG) d. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 63 64
Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d. Sara Errani (ITA) 63 64
Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) d. (Q) Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 76(4) 64



ORDER OF PLAY - DAY 7 , US OPEN 2009 ........ http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/schedule/index.html?promo=topnav


I love tennis and watching Grand Slams is always fun because there are many good matches to see but tomorrow my heart and cheering will be mostly with Juan Carlos Ferrero and Kim Clijsters. VAMOOOOOOOOS JUAN CARLOS AND GO KIM!!!!