by ti-amie Rod Laver Arena
Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Singles • Round 3
B. Krejcikova 20 vs A. Kalinina
Men's Singles • Round 3
S. Tsitsipas 3 vs T. Griekspoor
Women's Singles • Round 3
B. Pera vs C. Gauff 7
Night session - From 3:00am EST
Women's Singles • Round 3
M. Keys 10 vs V. Azarenka 24
Men's Singles • Round 3
S. Korda 29 vs D. Medvedev 7

Margaret Court Arena
Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Singles • Round 3
M. Fucsovics vs J. Sinner 15
Day session - Not before 9:00pm EST
Women's Singles • Round 3
J. Pegula 3 vs M. Kostyuk
Women's Singles • Round 3
I. Swiatek 1 vs C. Bucsa Q
Night session - From 3:00am EST
Men's Singles • Round 3
H. Hurkacz 10 vs D. Shapovalov 20
Women's Singles • Round 3
L. Zhu vs M. Sakkari 6

John Cain Arena
Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Doubles • Round 1
M. Purcell/J. Thompson vs G. Duran/P. Oswald
Women's Doubles • Round 1
S. Hunter 4/E. Mertens 4 vs V. Kudermetova/L. Samsonova
Day session - Not before 11:00pm EST
Men's Singles • Round 3
F. Cerundolo 28 vs F. Auger-Aliassime 6
Day session - Not before 3:00am EST
Men's Singles • Round 3
K. Khachanov 18 vs F. Tiafoe 16

Kia Arena
Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Doubles • Round 1
N. Melichar-Martinez 9/E. Perez 9 vs E. Alexandrova/V. Heisen
Men's Doubles • Round 1
F. Coria/D. Schwartzman vs A. Bolt WC/L. Saville WC
Day session - Not before 10:00pm EST
Women's Singles • Round 3
E. Rybakina 22 vs D. Collins 13
Day session - Not before 11:30pm EST
Men's Singles • Round 3
C. Norrie 11 vs J. Lehecka

1573 Arena
Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Doubles • Round 1
I. Begu/S. Rogers vs G. Dabrowski 3/G. Olmos 3
Women's Doubles • Round 1
L. Fruhvirtova/A. Riske-Amritraj vs N. Dzalamidze/A. Panova
Day session - Not before 10:00pm EST
Women's Singles • Round 3
K. Baindl vs J. Ostapenko 17
Men's Doubles • Round 1
B. Bonzi/A. Rinderknech vs J. Millman WC/A. Vukic WC
Mixed Doubles • Round 1
H. Chan/M. Venus vs J. Ostapenko/D. Vega Hernandez

Court 3
Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Doubles • Round 1
N. Lammons/J. Withrow vs L. Glasspool 6/H. Heliovaara 6
Men's Doubles • Round 1
A. Erler/L. Miedler vs R. Bopanna 10/M. Ebden 10
Day session - Not before 10:30pm EST
Men's Singles • Round 3
M. McDonald vs Y. Nishioka 31
Mixed Doubles • Round 1
L. Cabrera WC/J. Smith WC vs K. Zimmermann/T. Puetz

Court 6
Day session - From 8:30pm EST

Women's Doubles • Round 1
A. Muhammad 12/T. Townsend 12 vs N. Podoroska/M. Sherif
Women's Doubles • Round 1
L. Fernandez/B. Mattek-Sands vs B. Haddad Maia 7/S. Zhang 7
Day session - Not before 11:30pm EST
Women's Doubles • Round 1
B. Bencic/J. Teichmann vs M. Brengle/R. Marino
Mixed Doubles • Round 1
D. Krawczyk 3/N. Skupski 3 vs S. Hunter/J. Peers

Court 7
Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Doubles • Round 1
M. Linette/X. Wang vs S. Aoyama 10/E. Shibahara 10
Women's Doubles • Round 1
K. Flipkens 13/L. Siegemund 13 vs A. Potapova/Y. Sizikova
Day session - Not before 11:00pm EST
Women's Doubles • Round 1
J. Fourlis WC/A. Sharma WC vs C. Liu A/S. Santamaria A
Men's Doubles • Round 1
Q. Halys/A. Mannarino vs A. Goransson/M. Huesler
Mixed Doubles • Round 1
B. Mattek-Sands/M. Pavic vs J. Pegula 2/A. Krajicek 2

Court 8
Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Men's Doubles • Round 1
D. Hidalgo/E. Ruusuvuori vs M. Arevalo 3/J. Rojer 3
Men's Doubles • Round 1
S. Bolelli 9/F. Fognini 9 vs S. Doumbia/F. Reboul
Men's Doubles • Round 2
J. Murray 11/M. Venus 11 vs T. Brkic/G. Escobar
Day session - Not before 11:00pm EST
Men's Doubles • Round 1
M. Polmans WC/A. Popyrin WC vs F. Bagnis A/R. Galloway A
Mixed Doubles • Round 1
K. Flipkens/E. Roger-Vasselin vs T. Townsend/J. Murray

Court 14
Day session - From 10:30pm EST

Men's Doubles • Round 2
R. Haase 16/M. Middelkoop 16 vs J. Cash/H. Patten
Mixed Doubles • Round 1
A. Rosolska 7/J. Rojer 7 vs M. Inglis WC/J. Kubler WC
Mixed Doubles • Round 1
K. Birrell WC/R. Hijikata WC vs L. Kichenok/G. Escobar
Women's Doubles • Round 1
C. Bucsa/M. Ninomiya vs S. Kenin/Y. Putintseva

Court 15
Day session - From 10:30pm EST

Mixed Doubles • Round 1
X. Han WC/Z. Zhang WC vs L. Stefani/R. Matos
Day session - Not before 12:00am EST
Men's Doubles • Round 1
M. Cressy/A. Olivetti vs J. Chardy/F. Martin
Men's Doubles • Round 2
A. Golubev/A. Nedovyesov vs J. Cabal 12/R. Farah 12

Court 17
Day session - From 8:30pm EST

Women's Doubles • Round 2
M. Kato 16/A. Sutjiadi 16 vs M. Bouzkova/C. Osorio
Women's Doubles • Round 2
V. Golubic/M. Niculescu vs A. Bondar/G. Minnen
Mixed Doubles • Round 1
G. Dabrowski 8/M. Purcell 8 vs Z. Yang/J. Zielinski
Day session - Not before 12:00am EST
Women's Doubles • Round 1
A. Barnett/O. Nicholls vs M. Kolodziejova/M. Vondrousova

by Owendonovan Pet peeve; baseball hats worn backwards while trying to find the spot to toss the ball in the sun. Just wear your hat the way it was designed to keep the sun out, Fucsovics.

by Deuce

Owendonovan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 12:56 am Pet peeve; baseball hats worn backwards while trying to find the spot to toss the ball in the sun. Just wear your hat the way it was designed to keep the sun out, Fucsovics.

by ti-amie That's some shirt Fuscovics is wearing. I switched to the Collins/Rybakina match.

by ti-amie I just looked up and saw the taping/brace on Collins left knee.

by Deuce

ti-amie wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:33 am I just looked up and saw the taping/brace on Collins left knee.

She had that in the Muchova match, as well (the previous round), and it didn't seem to be a factor at all. Even the commentators were saying that there's no evidence that the knee is bothering her.

by JazzNU

Owendonovan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 12:56 am Pet peeve; baseball hats worn backwards while trying to find the spot to toss the ball in the sun. Just wear your hat the way it was designed to keep the sun out, Fucsovics.

I may be in the minority, but a baseball hat would do nothing for me in that scenario. I need sunglasses for that.

by ponchi101 Another weird stat from Unysis, just flashed on the score box on TV. "Hunting 3rd shot FH".
And no commentary from the talking heads. That's weird.

by Owendonovan Pegula's 4 UE's to Kostyuk's 32 UE's so far is a bit painful to watch.

by nelslus

Owendonovan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:50 am Pegula's 4 UE's to Kostyuk's 32 UE's so far is a bit painful to watch.

....Not if your pick last round was Kostyuk.

by nelslus AND in a so-far incredibly weird reversal of match fortunes, Bethanie and Leylah were up 7-6, 4-0, with multiple opportunities to get to 5-0. They've now lost 6 games in a row. Haddad Maia and Zhang certainly were playing much better. But, just a complete collapse from Bethanie and Leylah....

by Owendonovan

nelslus wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:54 am

Owendonovan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:50 am Pegula's 4 UE's to Kostyuk's 32 UE's so far is a bit painful to watch.

....Not if your pick last round was Kostyuk.

As a perennial first round loser, I've never had to joy of picking either.

by nelslus

Owendonovan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:58 amAs a perennial first round loser, I've never had to joy of picking either.

....We keep telling you, stop picking the Bondarenko sisters.

by ptmcmahon To be fair they are as safe as pick today as they were ten years ago.

by JazzNU Rybakina looked great against Collins, who was just a bit off for the majority of the match to me. Very flat and little fire to her today.

As good as her game is, Lena is about as uninspiring of a player to root for as I can remember. I don't dislike her at all, she's just there for me. Collins, love her or hate her, makes you feel something. Rybakina makes you impressed with her game and not much else. I've had stronger reactions, albeit negative, to Krejcikova.

by ponchi101 The main reason that I loved Pete, other than the game, was his poise while playing. He simply played like: "I am not impressed. I can play like this all the time". It was psychologically brutal on the opponent.
But Rybakina goes to another level. If they just show you the post match moment, you can't tell if she won or lost. She makes Borg look like Leyton.
It is hard to get excited about her, indeed.

by nelslus SO, I watched a bit of Felix in the 1st set (solid), 3rd set (same), and 4th set (good enough to beat Cerúndolo). Example- up 5-3 in the 4th, Felix plays great to get to 0-40- and then, yet again, fuddles around, and lets Cerúndolo. He's gotta cut this nonsense level he's been getting to in 2023, too often. Look- he was definitely better than the first two rounds. His serve, for the most part, has been holding him up when the rest of his game has been falling to crap. But- he really has gotta step it up when the tougher guys are his opponents.

But, hey- he's in R16- which is a better result so far than might have been expected from his level in the first two rounds.

by Deuce I find Taylor Fritz to be at least just as 'bland' as Rybakina.
Fritz is vanilla (which is fine with me - that's simply his personality).
But he's American, and so is far less likely to have his personality critiqued by Americans than is someone from overseas, I suppose...

by Deuce The extremes in this sport are often perplexing...
Keys rolled through the first set easily...
Then Azarenka easily rolled through the next 2 sets to win.

by Deuce Hurcacz has blown a 2 set to love lead over an erratic player he should beat.
Anyone who goes two sets up on Shapovalov should win the match without blowing the lead. Especially a guy like Hucacz, who is much more calm and much more steady than Denis.
2 sets all now, on serve at the beginning of the fifth.

by Deuce Hubie pulled it out in the end - 6-3 in the 5th. He got the break... but then it was love-40 on Hubie's serve for Denis to break back in the 9th game. Hubie dug deep, though, with some clutch serves, got it to deuce, and then won it.
But it really should not have gone to a 5th set.

Over on Laver, Korda is ahead of Medvedev 7-6, 4-1.

.

by Suliso So much for Medvedev being a serious title contender...

by ponchi101 His decline has been perplexing. After that USO title and climbing to #1, it seemed he was a serious threat at all slams, at least the ones on hard courts. And no, he just simply has become a so so player. Not even the best Russian.
Also:
Yes, Rafa lost to McDonald AND his injury. But McDonald had won the first set convincingly. Then, McDonald gets beaten by Nishioka in a rather routine fashion.
Nelslus said it earlier. There is something more than meets the eye about Rafa, regarding his game. It is just not the injuries.

by JazzNU

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:44 am The main reason that I loved Pete, other than the game, was his poise while playing. He simply played like: "I am not impressed. I can play like this all the time". It was psychologically brutal on the opponent.
But Rybakina goes to another level. If they just show you the post match moment, you can't tell if she won or lost. She makes Borg look like Leyton.
It is hard to get excited about her, indeed.

And Pete gave you something to work with. I'm not claiming it was all the time, but he would definitely give a smile, a smirk, a laugh, a small fist pump on a good point, a bigger fist pump on a trickier shot or more crucial point, sometimes even to the crowd. He engaged you more even if many would say not enough. Watch a highlight reel of him and it's easy to see.

That is a great way to put it about Rybakina, I wouldn't know if she won or lost a match looking at her most times.

by JazzNU

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:00 pm
Yes, Rafa lost to McDonald AND his injury. But McDonald had won the first set convincingly. Then, McDonald gets beaten by Nishioka in a rather routine fashion.

It's almost always been the case that players bring their A Game against the greats, and I'd guess it was as simple as that. We've seen so many pedestrian players (not saying McDonald is that fwiw) take top ranked players to 3 or 5 sets depending on the tournament and then basically never heard from them again. And we've seen better players (like McDonald) play them very close and sometimes beat them, and we're like, wow, he's got so much more to his game than I realized, only to never make that kind of noise and give that type of performance again.

Ajla is an example of this against Serena. Hasn't had her first career title, but came up with one of her best career performances that day. May never see her that dialed in again. But if she played even close to that clutch most other days, she'd have reached the top 20 in her career at least once and collected a title by now. And I don't know what Harmony Tan has been up to since beating Serena at Wimbledon, but it sure as heck hasn't been winning tour-level matches.

And Roger played a second round match at Wimbledon against someone one year so pedestrian I can't even guess at that name. Seemed like he'd certainly be ascending in the sport, if you can play Roger like this, you can beat a ton of players on tour, and he never registered a blip to my knowledge to after that. But he had Roger sweating that day.


As for Nishioka's routine win over McDonald? McDonald suffered an abdominal injury in the match and was seriously serving underhanded point after point to get the ball in by the 3rd set, frustrating Nishioka to no end, but he refused to retire. But also, Nishioka beat him routinely two weeks ago in Adelaide (the reason he was my SP pick yesterday).

by ponchi101

JazzNU wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:17 pm

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:00 pm
Yes, Rafa lost to McDonald AND his injury. But McDonald had won the first set convincingly. Then, McDonald gets beaten by Nishioka in a rather routine fashion.

...

And Roger played a second round match at Wimbledon against someone one year so pedestrian I can't even guess at that name. Seemed like he'd certainly be ascending in the sport, if you can play Roger like this, you can beat a ton of players on tour, and he never registered a blip to my knowledge to after that. But he had Roger sweating that day.


As for Nishioka's routine win over McDonald? McDonald suffered an abdominal injury in the match and was seriously serving underhanded point after point to get the ball in by the 3rd set, frustrating Nishioka to no end, but he refused to retire. But also, Nishioka beat him routinely two weeks ago in Adelaide (the reason he was my SP pick yesterday).

Alejandro Falla once led Roger 2-0 in sets, before faltering. Simply could not sustain the level.
And, of course, down here they did not even bother to mention the McDonald/Nishioka match because they had to show Cerundolo/FAA. So, I had idea of that injury to Mackensie.
I am liking him more. He seems pretty cool.

by JazzNU

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:00 pm His decline has been perplexing. After that USO title and climbing to #1, it seemed he was a serious threat at all slams, at least the ones on hard courts. And no, he just simply has become a so so player. Not even the best Russian.

Forgot to mention it earlier, but for anyone who wasn't able to watch any part of this match. Korda won it. He was on from the first point and Daniil seemed to know he was in trouble as soon as the match began. Korda broke Daniil's serve in a long game to open the match. Medvedev called the trainer immediately and didn't use him just had some words with him and then got like rubdowns on changeovers barely 20 minutes into the match. It was odd, like he was setting up his excuses for the loss he saw coming. Sebi truly played a fantastic match.

by Deuce Both Medvedev and Nadal became fathers in the past year. That may have something to do with their (relative) tennis decline. When you become a parent, tennis very likely becomes less important - suddenly, your main focus in life is not tennis.
With Medvedev, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the attention that gets him, may also be affecting him.

by Deuce One of the better on-court interviews this week...
"I'm definitely the worst athlete in the family so far."