Austalian Open Live Match Update
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Live Australian Open Final Match Roger Federer Vs Rafael Nadal | Australian OPen Final Match
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will Face each other in Sunday's Men's final at the Australian open as the Roger attempts to Cement arecordlevelling 14th Grand Slam Singles title.
Federer added "This is an unbelievable opportunity for me,not being number one anymore,trying to beat Number one in the world and geting the 14th Grand Slam,"
Nadal might bear the fitness burden after struggling for more than five hours against Verdasco in semi final.
Nadal said i m bit unlucky after the semi final match, nadal further added " I don't know ho i m gonna be for the final. I 'll try my best for sure to recover my body and my physical performance, but after one match like this at 5:14 the longest ever played at the event"
Serena Williams Won Australia Open | Serena Australia Open Title
Serena Williams won the match in just 58minutes defeating third seed Dinara Safina 6-0, 6-3, in Australia Open. Serena Dominated the Match from the Beginning.
Williams, who was bidding for her fourth Australian Open title after victories in 2003, 2005 and 2007.
Safina, who was playing in just her second Grand Slam final after finishing runner-up.
Williams sister also won Australian open doubles.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Safina vs Serena in Australian Open Final | Women Australia Open
Third Seed Safina Reached Australia open by Beating Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-3,6-7 Safina will face three times Winner Serena Williams in Australia Final.
Serena Williams will play today in her 13th Grand Slam singles final, Serena have won Nine out of Twelve.
Safina said Nobody believed I could be there. “Suddenly you're in the French Open final. All of a sudden you want to win, all the pressure. I hope all the experience I went through in that match will help me for my next match tomorrow.”
“I remember earning my first check of $240 at Quebec City in 1995, and while I knew I could have a great career in tennis, I could not have imagined or dreamed of all of this,” Williams said. “I'm very proud to have reached this milestone.”
Live Rafal Vs Verdasco | Robson Reaches Final | Williams Sisters Win Doubles Title
Serena and Venus Williams won their eighth career Grand Slam women's doubles title. After Beating Ai Sugiyama and Daniela Hantuchova for 6-3 6-3 in the final of the Australian Open.
Venus saif "We haven't played so much in the last seven years or eight years, If we would have played during that time, we probably would have gotten even more.
In junior womens 15 year old British fifth seed Laura Robson reached the final of the junior Australian Open, beating top seed Noppawan Lertcheewakarn of Thailand 6-4 6-3.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Rafael Nadal faces Fernando Verdasco | Federer in Final | Australian Open
Roger Federer advanced to the final of the Australian Open, In the Mean time Rafael Nadal faces Fernando Verdasco for the birth in Final to Face Roger Federer.
Federer, now in his 18th Grand Slam final, has not lost any of his three previous Australian Open title matches and continues his unbeaten record against Roddick.
After beating Andy Roddick 6-2 7-5 7-5 Federer said "Andy's been playing really well so I knew I had a tough match ahead of me".
Nadal is the Favourite in Semi and will face Roger Federer in Final.
"People sort of forgot about him leading up to the Australian Open," Federer said of Nadal.
"But he's showing why he's the best player in the world. I would love to play him in the final, that's for sure."
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Live Match Zvonareva vs Safina |Australian womens open | Robson in Semi | Serena in Final
Third Seed Safin will take on Seventh Seed Vera Zvonareva.
Robson Reached Semi Final in Australian Open due to ankle injury of her opponent who withdrew the match by score at 6-3 2-5.
The 15year old will play her semi-final against the top seed Noppawan Lertcheewakarn of Thailand, the player whom she beat in the girls' singles final at Wimbledon last year.
World Number two Serena Williams booked her place in the final of the Australian Open. After defeating Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-4 Serena Said "I am just really excited to be in the final, I don't care who I play," Williams said in a courtside interview. "I am just so happy to get this far all my work has paid off."
fourth seed Elena Dementieva said Serena played really well today. I was maybe not aggressive enough and maybe I was playing not deep enough, which allowed her to be very aggressive and dictate the game.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Federer destroys Del Potro | Australia Open | Federer Reach Semi
Roger Federer destroyed the 20year old world number six to make his 19th consecutive Grand Slam semi, where he will meet old rival Andy Roddick.
After beating Juan Martin 6-3 6-0 6-0 Roger Federer said I didn't expect a result like this. This is not usual "I don't think Juan Martin was at his very best tonight, otherwise it would have been much closer."
Federer will be aiming for his 16th win against Roddick in the semi-finals
Mens Australian Opens | Live Roger Federer vs Juan Martin | Djokovic Out of Australian OPen.
Roger Federer will taken on Juan Martin in the Quarter final in Melbourne at the Australian Open.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic is out of the Austalian Open, he was forced to Retire due to heat in the fourth set against Andy Roddick.
Temperature reaching above 40 degrees on court, Djokovic began to wilt. The third-seeded Djokovic then walked off court, consulted the doctor and told chair umpire Carlos Ramos of Portugal "no more", and he went to congratulate Roddick.
Australian Open womens | Robson Moves 3rd Round | Zvonareva in Semi
After wining the match Vera said "I don't know what happened Marion was playing really well in the beginning and I made a few unforced errors, so that's why I think I was down 3-1."
24-year-old further said that "Then I was able to cut down on my unforced errors and I was able to keep a good level of play throughout the whole match."I'm pretty confident in myself. If I'm in the tournament, I'm here to try to win it," she said.
"I think I played very good tennis. I think Marion's been playing very good as well, but I was able to play a very clean match today. That's what made the difference."
In another Match Laura Robson moved into the third round of the Australian Open girls' singles with a 6-3 7-6 (7/0) win against Thailand's Kanyapat Narattana.
Robson will now face Croatia's Silvia Njiric for a place in the last-eight.
Fellow Briton Heather Watson also won, beating South African Chanel Simmonds 6-2 6-1.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Australian Open Live | Women Australian Open | Elena Dementieva Moves to Quarter Final
Elena Dementieva is still unbeaten, she moves to Australian open Quarter final after she defeated Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova 6-2 6-2.
Suarez Navarro continued her giant-killing run with a 6-3 6-2 fourth-round victory over compatriot Anabel Medina Garrigues.
Britain's Laura Robson booked her place in the second round of the Australian Open girls singles with a straight sets win.
In another match 15th-seeded Cheng-Peng Hsieh of Taiwan beat Churdy fell 1-6 6-2 3-6 .
Tennis Alive | Nadal vs Fernando Gonzalez | Live Australian Open
Watch Rafael Nadal is in action against Fernando Gonzalez. Andy Murray faces Spaniard Fernando Verdasco for a place in the quarter-finals.
Sixth seed Simon moves to Quarter final at the Australia open.
Roger Federer said "I don't know how fit Murray is. I'll take him on any day in a five-setter." Federer further added that"He's younger so he's probably not so experienced. In the end it becomes very mental, and I know that this is where my biggest strength always comes into play.
"That's why I'm always going to favour myself in a fifth set."
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Australina Open Men | Nadal Will Face Gonzalez | Murray Beats Melzer
After beating Austria's Juergen Melzer 7-5 6-0 6-3, Murray Said "I thought I hit the ball really, really well, I took a lot of my chances. I made him do a lot of running and was very confident from the second set onwards."
The 21year old further said "I just felt more confident going into the match, I knew if I played well I felt like I could go on to win in three sets if I grabbed the first set."
Nadal will Face Fernando Gonzalez of Chile,
Simon will play Monfils.
Tsonga will next face American ninth seed James Blake
Australian Open Women | Serena Beat Peng Shuai | Australian Open Rounds
Serena Williams is chasing her fourth Australian Open singles crown, after winning the title in 2003, 2005 and 2007, and has won each of her three matches this year in two sets.
Serena Williams easily move to fourth Round by beating China's Peng Shuai by 6-1, 6-4.
Suarez Navarro will play another Spaniard, Anabel Medina Garrigues , in the fourth round on Monday.
Dominika Cibulkova overcame France's Virginie Razzano 7-5 7-5 to set up a fourth round clash against fourth seed Elena Dementieva.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Australian Open | Mens Australian Open | Australian Open Update
Novak Djokovic to beat American Amer Delic 6-2 4-6 6-3 7-6 in the third round of the Australian Open. Noval Djokovic will face either Mardy Fish or Marcos Baghdatis.
Seventh seed Andy Roddick brought Fabrice Santoro's last Australian Open appearance to an end with a 6-3 6-4 6-2 victory.
Roddick will meet Spain's Tommy Robredo in the fourth round
Croatia's Marin Cilic will now meet dangerous Argentine eighth seed Juan Martin del Potro who came from a set down to beat Luxembourg's Gilles Muller 6-7 7-5 6-3 7-5.
Australian Open Jankovic moves to Fourth Round | Women Matches update
Jelena Jankovic Marches to fourth round after overcoming Japan's Ai Sugiyama 6-4 6-4. After Win over Ali Sugiyama Jelena said "I have always had tough matches against her, she has a lot of experience and is a very solid player so I really had to work for every point."
Dinara Safina effortlessly advanced with an easy 6-2 6-2 victory over Estonia's Kaia Kanepi. Dinara Safina said after the match "There's a first time for everything. Twice I lost in the third round. I was like this today 'That is the third time and it should be the luckiest one.' I'm not a roadrunner on the court. I cannot be as fast as some other players, but I have some other weapons. If I use my power, then I have to run less. It's time to use it sometimes."
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Tennis Sports Update | Nadal Marches With Powerful
World Number no.1 Rafal Nadal Marches in Third Round by by crushing Croatia's Roko Karanusic 6-2 6-3 6-2.
Nadal, will face Tommy Haas of Germany in the third round on Saturday, Nadal faced Tommy Haas in last year semi-finals.
In another match Frenchman Gilles Simon booked his place in the third round with a 6-7 6-4 6-1 6-2 win over Chris Guccione.