Australian Open 2025: Gauff, Swiatek and Sinner in motion on day two – dwell | Australian Open 2025

20-year-old American Alex Michelsen has taken the primary set off twelfth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, breaking the Greek’s serve within the twelfth recreation. It will be no shock if the 2023 finalist turned the primary main casualty of the match.

It took Coco Gauff eight minutes and 5 deuces to carry serve within the opening recreation of her conflict with Sofia Kenin. We might be in for an extended one on RLA.

Nice Britain’s Jodie Burrage has gained the opening set 6-2 in opposition to France’s Leolia Jeanjean. The winner of that conflict will face Gauff or Kenin in spherical two.

Third seed Coco Gauff has made her entrance onto Rod Laver Enviornment prepared for her blockbuster first spherical match in opposition to 2020 champion Sofia Kenin. Gauff gained all 5 matches on the United Cup in Perth lately, with out dropping a set, persevering with her wonderful finish to 2024, that concluded with WTA Finals glory.

Gauff is in Aryna Sabalenka’s quarter of the draw establishing the prospect of a mouthwatering semi-final in direction of the tip of subsequent week.

Stefanos Tsitsipas reached the ultimate right here in 2023, and made three semi-finals within the 4 years earlier than that. His kind has nosedived since, plummeting from third on this planet to twelfth, with solely two match victories in that point.

He has the complete throated assist of Melbourne’s huge Greek neighborhood out on John Cain Enviornment this morning, however he has his work lower out in opposition to 20-year-old rising star Alex Michelsen who has vaulted from 601 on this planet to forty first in simply two years.

It’s presently on serve within the opening set.

Coco Gauff is in motion in about quarter-hour, main the cost for an rising youthful breed of US grand slam contenders.

Since her much-discussed break with coach Brad Gilbert after her disappointing US Open efficiency (shedding to fellow American Emma Navarro, who’s the eighth seed in Australia), Gauff’s document is a rare 18-2 for the reason that US Open. With new coach Matt Daly, Gauff has ironed out a lot of the problems together with her forehand and serve and is enjoying a model of extremely assured tennis. Additional, the truth that Gauff is likely one of the quickest gamers on tour and possesses a really robust mindset makes her considerably upset-proof within the larger occasions.

At present’s climate forecast is way more promising that yesterday. The temperature is within the mid-20s, it’s muggy however dry, and it ought to stay that manner for a lot of the day. Any remoted showers passing via on the light southerly breeze are unlikely to linger for lengthy.

Probably the most attention-grabbing story from yesterday’s play was the success of Hady Habib, the primary Lebanese tennis participant to win a match at a grand slam. Tumaini Carayol has extra:

Habib’s trailblazing success is much more important contemplating it has come at a time of warfare in his nation. The previous 12 months has been a interval of unimaginable ache for a lot of Lebanese individuals because the nation continues to choose up the items following Israel’s airstrikes and floor invasion of Lebanon, which have killed almost 4,000 individuals, destroyed complete cities and villages, and displaced greater than one million individuals.

With Habib’s dad and mom, different household and mates nonetheless residing in Lebanon, he has spent a lot of the previous 12 months glued to his telephone each morning as he has tried to examine that his family members have been all OK. His success has offered an unlikely supply of inspiration for Lebanese individuals. “It’s an enormous win, particularly what we’ve been going via as a rustic,” he mentioned. “I believe to deliver one thing optimistic, particularly, we’ve been having a tough time with the warfare. We had our different points up to now. It’s simply good to get this win for Lebanon and for the individuals.”

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