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She didn’t sparkle but Coco Gauff did enough to see off Sofia Kenin on Rod Laver Arena. Both players were rusty, with Kenin hitting 14 more unforced errors than winners, and Gauff serving nine double faults. She has just spoken on court that her second serve suffered because of the glare from the sun.
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Great Britain’s Jodie Burrage up next.
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The first winner of the day is Great Britain’s Jodie Burrage. Burrage missed six months of the 2024 season through injury and considered quitting the sport, but used her protected ranking to start in Melbourne, and she is through to the second round after outclassing French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean.
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Next up for her: Gauff or Kenin.
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Ballage was an early winner on Day 2 of the Australian Open.”,”caption”:”Jody Ballage was an early winner on Day 2 of the Australian Open “, “Credit”:”Photo: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images”}}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:true,”summary”:false},”blockCreatedOn”:1736731420000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”20.23 EST”,”blockLastUpdated”:1736731815000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”: “20.30 EST”,”blockFirstPublished”:1736731679000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”20.27 EST”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”20.27″,”title”:”Jody Ballage defeats Leoria Janjan 6-2, 6-4″, “contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Sunday, January 12, 2025 22:45 EST”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Sunday, January 12, 2025, 18:56 EST”},{“id”:”67837d8b8f08a644578d6796 “,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Hello everybody and welcome to live coverage of the second day’s play at the 2025 Australian Open. Action kicked off on the outside courts of Melbourne Park at 11am sharp local time, while the stadium courts welcome some of the sport’s biggest stars from 11.30am.
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I’ll be focusing on the daytime matches for now, ahead of a jam-packed evening session which features Nick Kyrgios, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and Naomi Osaka.
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A selection of the first round singles matches we’ll be paying close attention to during the day session include:
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11:00am: Stefanos Tsitsipas (11) v Alex Michelsen
\n 11:30am: Coco Gauff (3) v Sofia Kenin
\n 1:30pm: Iga Swiatek (2) v Katerina Siniakova
\n 2:00pm: Jannik Sinner (1) v Nicolas Jarry
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Other names to keep an eye out for include a stack of home hopes: Ajla Tomljanovic, Jordan Thompson, Talia Gibson, James Duckworth, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Christopher O’Connell, Destanee Aiava, James McCabe, Tristan Schoolkate, and Aleksandar Vukic.
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While plenty of other interesting seeded players get their tournaments underway, including American challengers Tommy Paul (12) and Frances Tiafoe (17), rising British contender Jack Draper (15), and former champion Victoria Azarenka (21).
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There are also a couple of intriguing match-ups featuring unseeded players with serious CVs, specifically Olympic gold medallist Belinda Bencic v 16th seed Jelena Ostapenko, and Italian veteran Fabio Fognini v 10th seed Grigor Dimitrov.
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It’s going to be a job keeping up with it all, so feel free to nudge me in the direction of something interesting as it unfolds. The address is jonathan.howcroft.casual@theguardian.com for all correspondence.
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Hopefully today’s action is an improvement on yesterday’s thin gruel. Day one patrons were not favoured either by the schedulers or the weather, with little of note occurring inside the major arenas and six hours of play lost to wild storms on the outside courts.
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Another Australian active today is a wild card. james mccabewon the first set against the Spanish qualifiers. martin randalus 6-4 out on court 6.
And now that I've said that, Civiatek (2) broken Sinakowa Take control in the first set.
In other places, linder neck succeeded in taking Tier Four (17) He advanced to the fifth set and took the fourth set in a tiebreak, ensuring a goal at 1573 Arena.
sinner (1) and Jarry Both men held serve in the first set of the match at Rod Laver Arena, as well. Civiatek (2) and Sinakowa Next to John Cain Arena.
linder neck is fighting back against Tier Four (17)in an effort to force the match at 1573 Arena into a decisive fifth set, sending the fourth set to a tiebreak.
Out at Kia Arena bronzetti held serve and won the first set 6-2. azarenka (21), settled things after the Belarusian's backhand error.
As for Rod Laver, sinner and Jarry Both teams held serve in their opening service games, and this time the top seed held serve for the second time. Jarry saw the ace pass him on the previous point and couldn't keep the return.
Another local hope james duckworth We got off to a good start in the match against Switzerland. dominique strickertook the first set 6-2. Both players held serve as the second set began on the third court.
Another upset for Chile's 23rd seed. Alejandro Tabilo He was unable to survive a fourth-set tie-break and lost to the unseeded Spanish veteran 6-1, 2-6, 3-6, 6-7. Roberto Carballes Baena
Other initiatives already underway include: Victoria Azarenka (21) Breakback against Italy Lucia Bronzetti However, he still trailed 2-5 in the first set of the match at Kia Arena. Francis Tiafoe (17) trying to overtake France arthur linder neck At 1573 Arena.
On the second day of the British Open, another local veteran advances to the second round. Ajla Tomljanovic Defeat America with decisive set ashlyn kruger 6-4 4-6 6-4.
Thank you, Jonathan, and hello everyone. Joey Lynch is here. Ready to jump in after the barn burner between Tsitsipas and michelsenready to guide you through the next few hours of action right here in Melbourne.
There are a lot of players, but we'll definitely be keeping an eye on the top seeds on the men's side. Jannik Sinner Players expected to start their campaign against Chile nicholas jarry Always 2nd seed for women Iga Swiatek Who is playing against the Czech Republic? Katerina Sinakova – Half of the top seeds in women's doubles alongside American Taylor Townsend at John Cain Arena.
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On that note, I'll hand over to Joey Lynch for the next few hours. Please come here again soon.
