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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 Barrage defeats Leoria Janjan 6-2, 6-4″, “contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Sunday, January 12, 2025 21:31 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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australian wild card Talia Gibson achieved a comeback victory over Zeynep Sonmez 3-6 7-6 6-1. In the biggest match of her career, she will face No. 11 seed Paula Badosa in the second round.
… michelsennot moving, just broken Tsitsipas In the first game of the fourth set. The Greek is rattled, box out of his mouth and slamming his racket into his kit bag. The American plays smart tennis, keeping the ball in play, scoring high percentages and allowing opponents to attack.
Stefanos Tsitsipas (11) is on a comeback track! The Greek opened a wide lead at John Cain Arena, winning the third set and closing the gap in the third set. Alex Michelsen. The American won just two of 10 points from his second serve in the third set, allowing Tsitsipas a chance to dictate the terms.
It may have been too soon to talk about Coco Gauff's next opponent. ashlyn kruger I just leveled up one set at a time against Ajla Tomljanovic.
Good news for other Australians, Talia Gibson Leading 4-0 in the deciding set Zeynep Sonmez.
Coco Gauff (3) defeats Sofia Kenin 6-3, 6-3
Although she didn't shine, Coco Gauff did enough to see off Sofia Kenin at Rod Laver Arena. Both players were in poor form, with Kenin making 14 more unforced errors than the winners and Gauff serving nine double faults. She just said on court that her second serve was difficult because of the glare from the sun.
Next up is British athlete Jody Ballage.
Diana Schneider (12) Defeated Elisabetta Cocciaretto 7-6, 6-4. The 20-year-old Russian has advanced to Round 2 and his next opponent is likely to be Ira Tomljanovic.
gauff Overcoming several break points to move one game closer to victory Kenin. Gauff struggled with her second serve, and Kenin had a series of low winning success rates, resulting in a disappointing match.
australian wild card Talia Gibson forced Zeynep Sonmez After a tight tie-break in the second set, we headed to the deciding set. This is only the second Grand Slam match of the 20-year-old Perth player's career.
25th seed Liudmila Samsonova She won in straight sets against fellow Russian Kamila Rahimova. Samsonova recently reached the semi-finals in Adelaide and will face Olga Danilovic in the second round after the Serbian defeated Aranča Luz 6-4, 6-4.
After polishing the opening set, coco gauff Currently in control with a break in the second match and 3-1. Sofia Kenin. Kenin won just 46% of his points on first serves, made 20 unforced errors and had just nine winners. This is to the detriment of the fact that the majority of the match was played on Kenin's terms, but all too often crucial forcing shots, especially cross-court forehands, went just a little too long or wide. Ta.
at Rod Laver Arena coco gauff (3) Go on to win the first set of the match against Sofia Kenin 6-3.
margaret court arena australia Ajla Tomljanovic Won the first set 6-4 against Ashlyn Kruger.
And at John Cain Arena Stefanos Tsitsipas (11) fell to Alex Michelsen in two sets, 5-7, 3-6.
Jody Barrage defeats Leoria Janjan 6-2, 6-4
The first winner of the day is Jodie Ballage from Great Britain. Brage missed six months of the 2024 season due to injury and considered quitting the sport, but used her protected ranking to start in Melbourne and advance to the second round, ahead of French qualifier Léoria Jean-Jean. did.
Next up is Gauff or Kenin.
coco gauff The lead expanded to 5-2. Sofia Kenin Before I hit the strap yet. The third seed's number of double faults increased to six in just four service games.
Francis Tiafoe Set and break break in the match with (17) arthur linder neck. The American player has made zero unforced errors so far.
