AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2015

Was dusting off all the Maria Sharaplolva gags but she came back from being served against for the match. A *lot* of stupid mistakes though.

I just dozed off for a bit, and Roger appears to have dropped the first set while I wasn't looking.

I did wonder whether Goffin might be the type to flop at Slams, where Baghdatis typically peaks...

The Sharapova match sounds as aggravating as usual, not sure whether to LOL that Panova took more than 5 games off her or to be annoyed at the two MPs missed.

Mladenovic/Mattek-Sands was a nice contrast. Mladenovic is so slow to react on the baseline though, and she absolutely ballsed up an easy SP in the second set TB. Great win for BMS on her way back up the rankings though.

Murray trashing Matosevic, delicious after his comments about female coaches.

Smyczek was really unimpressive in the fourth set. No idea how he got two sets off Rafa.

Rafa was pretty bad in set 3. Smyczek is hitting lots of lovely winners though.

Tomic-Kohli was a good match, much better than the Rafa shitfest

Bepa vs Serena yesssss no matter what happens it's all good

feel quite badly for zvonareva now, from 2 set pt chances, serenas p much broken her spirit

zvonareva nearly injured herself going for serenas return winners

LOL at the Muguruza / Hantuchova scoreline.

omg @ mannarino, looks like hes been lost in the desert

oof, pironkova bagelled by domi

Jerzy/Gael is very good so far

Surprised Vera made that much out of the match.

so Day 1 used up our surprise quotient huh? Pironkova not upsetting Cibulkova is the biggest shock to me. Also didn't expect Bepa to challenge Serena in any way.

Monfils playing well against Janowicz...

Vika / C Woz is v good, they match each other well to produce long intense rallies.

Azarenka's superior weight of shot really told in that set.

Absolutely, though Woz is almost at peak defending here and Vika's had to be fully on to get things done.

wau @ that return that won Janowicz the set. 5th set, which will surprise no one...

xp yes, given how up-and-down Vika's been since her return I'm surprised that she sustained her good play, but obv there's still time for that to change...

It didn't change.

#back

And Janowicz breaks in the fifth with a BH DTL banger

so happy for Jerzy

ughhhhhh Vandeweghe beating Stosur was NID but this clear run to R4 for Colleen is so gross

and looooooooooool @ Hewitt losing from two sets up

YESS seeya later Hewitt

Berdych has looked fantastic but he's in Nadal's quarter so it doesn't matter

Dimitrov grinding out a win with that Rasheed fitness training, still don't like all the pushing he does

xp nadal was pretty undercooked on Wednesday night, I'd be surprised if he gets much further

I hope Dimitrov and Murray can do a repeat of their awesome match from Acapulco last year. Similar playing conditions.

that match might have been the best non-slam match of the year

What's Federer doing?

losing?

Impressive mental resilience from Seppi, but lol @ Fed

That Seppi MP!!

Also Wozniacki's lack of any answers to Vika's relentless FF CCs followed by a DTL approach shot was kind of embarrassing.

I mean that was amazing

(Seppi I mean)

Hearing Sascha Bajin commentating on Serena's R2 match was bizarre

And belated lol @ Ivanovic. Last 4 slams: R3 R3 R2 R1

omg Fed. what a way to lose. I swear I've seen a ton more players lose key points via leaving balls that drop in than usual this year.

Tomic/Groth second set TB was pure comedy, both DFing for their lives on SPs. NID that Tomic got it together though.

Zarina not putting up the fight I thought she would vs Ma$ha :((((((

Baby jesus wept wtf

serena's pathetic AO performances lately. i can't. looking so disinterested. i have a dissertation to write and i'll be too depressed to do it if you lose so come the fuck on

feet like lead / no game plan / nonchalantly spun in serves. at least i'mused to it now.

lol at that. svitolina just gave in. muguruza should be interesting. serena should be motivated and hopefully gets off to an energetic start for once.

courier called radwanska "aggie-rod"

i just cant

i wish espn 2 would show lopez/janowicz

im kindof into seeing djoko/verdasco - novak will kill him but verdasco will def hit some sic winners

im really pulling for feliciano lopez this tourney for some unknown to me reason - luv'ed that backhand slice winner after a long fhand rally that he was v defensive on, this is a cool match

dam didnt realize lopez had raonic next if he pulls this out

janovicz is selling out this 4-5 game, p smart prob

so bad that lopez double faulted @ 30-15

lopez is tuff 2 break cuz his ad serve is his best shot

omg this is p sweet play here

16 point game to close out the set

New rankings

1. Serena Williams (1)
2. Maria Sharapova (2)
3. Simona Halep (3)
4. Petra Kvitova (4)
5. Caroline Wozniacki (8)
6. Ana Ivanovic (5)
7. Eugenie Bouchard (7)
8. Agnieszka Radwanska (6)
9. Ekaterina Makarova (11)
10. Angelique Kerber (9)
11. Venus Williams (18)
12. Andrea Petkovic (13)
13. Sara Errani (14)
14. Flavia Pennetta (12)
15. Lucie Safarova (16)
16. Jelena Jankovic (15)
17. Carla Suarez Navarro (17)
18. Dominika Cibulkova (10)
19. Alize Cornet (19)
20. Madison Keys (35)
21. Shuai Peng (22)
22. Karolina Pliskova (20)
23. Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova (23)
24. Garbine Muguruza (24)
25. Samantha Stosur (21)
26. Elina Svitolina (26)
27. Svetlana Kuznetsova (27)
28. Sabine Lisicki (28)
29. Varvara Lepchenko (30)
30. Caroline Garcia (36)
...
34. Irina-Camelia Begu (42)
41. Sloane Stephens (32)
46. Madison Brengle (64)
49. Victoria Azarenka (44)
66. Yanina Wickmayer (80)

1. Novak Djokovic (1)
2. Roger Federer (2)
3. Rafael Nadal (3)
4. Andy Murray (6)
5. Kei Nishikori (5)
6. Milos Raonic (8)
7. Tomas Berdych (7)
8. Marin Cilic (9)
9. Stan Wawrinka (4)
10. David Ferrer (10)
11. Grigor Dimitrov (11)
12. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (12)
13. Ernests Gulbis (13)
14. Feliciano Lopez (14)
15. Kevin Anderson (15)
16. Roberto Bautista Agut (16)
17. Tommy Robredo (17)
18. John Isner (21)
19. Gilles Simon (20)
20. Gael Monfils (19)
21. David Goffin (22)
22. Fabio Fognini (18)
23. Philipp Kohlschreiber (24)
24. Alexandr Dolgopolov (23)
25. Ivo Karlovic (27)
26. Leonardo Mayer (26)
27. Julien Benneteau (25)
28. Richard Gasquet (28)
29. Lukas Rosol (30)
30. Pablo Cuevas (29)
...
35. Nick Kyrgios (53)
36. Gilles Muller (42)
46. Viktor Troicki (54)
48. Bernard Tomic (66)