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Interesting first rounds! Alexandrova vs Linette, Cirstea vs Ostapenko and Hanfmann vs Sonego...

Vondrousova withdrew citing a hip injury

Wed, 10 January, 2024 (Day 5)

Centre Court Starts at 11:00 am

Bernarda Pera (LL) Vs Jessica Pegula (2)
Followed By
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Q) Vs Katerina Siniakova (Q)
Not Before 2:30 pm
Tommy Paul (1) Vs Alex Bolt (Q)
Not Before 6:30 pm
Lorenzo Musetti (4) Vs Jordan Thompson
Not Before 8:00 PM
Elena Rybakina (1) Vs Cristina Bucsa (LL)

Show Court 1 Starts at 11:00 am

Matteo Arnaldi Vs Nicolas Jarry (2)
Followed By
Lorenzo Sonego Vs Sebastian Korda (3)
Not Before 2:30 PM
Caroline Garcia Vs Jelena Ostapenko (6)
Followed By
Daria Kasatkina Vs Anna Kalinskaya (Q)
Followed By
Ekaterina Alexandrova Vs Veronika Kudermetova (8)
Followed By
Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek (1) Vs Andrew Harris/Harri Heliovaara

Court 2 Starts at 11:00 am

Alexander Shevchenko Vs Christopher O'Connell (WC)
Not Before 1:00 PM
Laura Siegemund (SE) Vs Ana Bogdan (LL)
Not Before 2:30 PM
Taylor Townsend (LL) Vs Marta Kostyuk
Not Before 4:00 pm
Daniel Evans Vs Alexander Bublik (8)
Followed By
Marcelo Melo/Matwe Middelkoop Vs Hugo Nys/Jan Zielinski (5)
After Suitable Rest
Beatriz Haddad Maia/Taylor Townsend (3) Vs Shuko Aoyama/Aleksandra Krunic

Court 3 Starts at 11:00 am

Andre Goransson/Albano Olivetti Vs Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden (2)
Followed By
Miomir Kecmanovic Vs Jack Draper
Not Before 2:00 pm
Jiri Lehecka (7) Vs Dusan Lajovic
After Suitable Rest
Barbora Krejcikova/Laura Siegemund (1) Vs Asia Muhammad/Demi Schuurs
After Suitable Rest
Lyudmyla Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko Vs Aliaksandra Sasnovich/Katerina Siniakova
After Suitable Rest
Angelica Moratelli/Samantha Murray Sharan (ALT) Vs Caroline Garcia/Kristina Mladenovic (OSE)

Court 4 Starts at 10:00 am

Constantin Frantzen/Hendrik Jebens Vs Santiago Gonzalez/Neal Skupski (4)
Followed By
Nicolas Mahut/Edouard Roger-Vasselin (8) Vs Nicolas Barrientos/Rafael Matos
Followed By
Lloyd GlasspoolJean-Julien Rojer (7) Vs Gonzalo Escobar/Aleksandr Nedovyesov
Followed By
Evan King/Reese Stalder Vs Kevin Krawietz/Tim Puetz (6)
Followed By
Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury (3) Vs Andreas Mies/John-Patrick Smith

saw a bit of Alexandrova vs Kudermetova match on Youtube - both looked undercooked, need match practice.. happy that Alexandrova won but too many bad errors.. Rybakina didnt look all that sharp against Bucsa either, she would have been better of not playing this tournament..

Or she is just using it as practice sessions, playing just to stay at 90% and gear it up next week.
She will lose today or tomorrow. Which will be better, so she will not enter the Aussie on a streak.

Thu, 11 January, 2024 (Day 6)

Centre Court Starts at 11:00 am

Christopher O'Connell (WC) Vs Sebastian Korda (3)
Not Before 12:30 PM
Marta Kostyuk Vs Jelena Ostapenko (6)
Not Before 2:00 PM
Laura Siegemund (SE) Vs Daria Kasatkina
Not Before 6:30 pm
Tommy Paul (1) Vs Jack Draper
Not Before 8:00 PM
Elena Rybakina (1) Vs Ekaterina Alexandrova

Show Court 1 Starts at 11:00 am

Nicolas Barrientos/Rafael Matos Vs Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden (2)
Followed By
Gonzalo Escobar/Aleksandr Nedovyesov Vs Constantin Frantzen/Hendrik Jebens
Not Before 2:00 pm
Jiri Lehecka (7) Vs Nicolas Jarry (2)
Followed By
Lorenzo Musetti (4) Vs Alexander Bublik (8)
Not Before 5:00 PM
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Q) Vs Jessica Pegula (2)

Court 2 Starts at 1:00 pm

Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury (3) Vs Diego Hidalgo/Cristian Rodriguez (Alt)
After Suitable Rest
Caroline Garcia/Kristina Mladenovic (OSE) Vs Lyudmyla Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko
Not Before 5:00 pm
Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek (1) Vs Hugo Nys/Jan Zielinski (5)

Court 3 After Suitable Rest NB 4:00 PM

Barbora Krejcikova/Laura Siegemund (1) Vs Beatriz Haddad Maia/Taylor Townsend (3)

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:38 pm Or she is just using it as practice sessions, playing just to stay at 90% and gear it up next week.
She will lose today or tomorrow. Which will be better, so she will not enter the Aussie on a streak.

Agree..I think she is tiring..reminds me of Miami..I had predicted then that the first good player she meets, will beat her- Kvitova did. Though Alexandrova is not in the same class, she could well beat her today.

ashkor87 wrote:Very puzzling defeat for Krejcikova here at the hands of Kalinskaya - Krejcikova seemed listless and unable to hit through the court - of course, she is not that powerful anyway, but how did she win the French then? .. will have to go back and study that again..!

And beat Iga in the Ostrava final in 2022. Fantastic match.


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Alexandrova is 2-1 against Rybakina..

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:30 am

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:38 pm Or she is just using it as practice sessions, playing just to stay at 90% and gear it up next week.
She will lose today or tomorrow. Which will be better, so she will not enter the Aussie on a streak.

Agree..I think she is tiring..reminds me of Miami..I had predicted then that the first good player she meets, will beat her- Kvitova did. Though Alexandrova is not in the same class, she could well beat her today.

as predicted!

Fri, 12 January, 2024 (Day 7)

Centre Court Starts at 12:00 pm

Beatriz Haddad Maia/Taylor Townsend (3) Vs Caroline Garcia/Kristina Mladenovic (OSE)
Not Before 2:00 pm
Sebastian Korda (3) Vs Jiri Lehecka (7)
Not Before 4:00 PM
Ekaterina Alexandrova Vs Jelena Ostapenko (6)
Not Before 6:30 pm
Jack Draper Vs Alexander Bublik (8)
Not Before 8:00 PM
Daria Kasatkina Vs Jessica Pegula (2)

Show Court 1 Starts at 2:00 pm

Gonzalo Escobar/Aleksandr Nedovyesov Vs Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden (2)
Followed By
Hugo Nys/Jan Zielinski (5) Vs Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury

ti-amie wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:14 pm

this is why Rybakina isn't my pick to win the AO. Too inconsistent.

Taro Daniel beat Ben Shelton, and I'm happy for him, as much as I like Shelton. He said in his speech that he was trying to avoid playing Brisbane, because there wasn't a single ray of sunshine last year, but now he's loving it.

He speaks English with no trace of an accent. His dad is American but he grew up in Japan and Spain.