An overview at the Australian Open

 

Very disputed matches at the Australian Open which is currently being held in Melbourne, Venus Williams won to Camille Pin and advanced to the third round of the competition, now she’s playing No. 31 Sania Mirza from India. Venus had a rough night as she was ill from the stomach and finished the night with he finished with 44 unforced errors to 27 winners.

On men’s tennis, defending champion Roger Federer defeated his off-court friend Fabrice Santoro, who broke the record imposed by Andre Agassi of 61 Grand Slam tournaments contested, it looked like if it was just a friendly match instead of a game with no return for one of them, in this care Santoro, who said of Federer that he considers his tennis as nearly as perfect. Now Federer is going for his third consecutive Australian Open title.

Andy Roddick took down 54th-ranked Michael Berrer and will meet another German in the third round, Philipp Kohlschreiber. On his side, Rafael Nadal will meet 88th-ranked Florent Serra from France, with things like that, Roddick might have to face Nadal on quarter finals.

The Russian Nikolay Davydenko who is currently being investigated in relationship to a betting fraud scandal involving match-fixing, defeated Frenchman Nicolas Mahut easily with a final score of 6-4, 6-0, 6-3.

In other results, Maria Sharapova defeated Lindsay Davenport 6-1, 6-3, this was a second round match that saw two Grand Slams champions and former number ones playing at their best. Also, Serena Williams put everything on the court to come up with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Chinese Yuan Meng.

Overall really good games involving the best of the world, there are many games to be played still and in my personal opinion, Federer might repeat and hold his championship title this time.