Djokovic, Serena Williams comfortably through to third round

He gives even the second-round matches a sense of occasion.

The controversy ignited Monday when the BBC and Buzzfeed News published reports alleging that the sport’s highest authorities had ignored evidence of match-fixing involving 16 players who had been ranked in the top 50 over the past decade. He has said he’ll leave immediately if his wife, Kim, goes into labor in London with their first child. “Honestly, it’s on a borderline, I would say”, Djokovic said. The Czech player was broken in the last game, dropping serve for the fifth time in the match.

Konta has denied that Williams’ age of 35 had anything to do with the American’s laboured display, but she also said that she has “all the respect in the world” for her.

Sharapova, who was nursing a left forearm injury coming into the first grand slam of the year, continued to show no signs of weakness as she raced to victory in just over an hour.

“No”, she said. “Unfortunately, my home is Great Britain”.

“I would love to hear names”, Federer said. I don’t really understand how it all works. Djokovic, who had two wisdom teeth removed after the Madrid Masters earlier that month, said after the loss to Santoro that he was not fully fit because he was still taking medication.

“I miss the fight, competition (of tennis) because in the normal life you really don’t have much chance for that”, she said. The players said they have known the issue existed but they doubt any top players have been involved.

Roger Federer, a 17-time major victor and former leader of the player council, agreed the allegations likely weren’t new but remained “super serious”. Genie Bouchard advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 win against Alexandra Krunic.

It was his 299th match win at a major. He lost in the third round in his first two trips to Melbourne Park in 2000 and ’01 and again last year – in between he won the title four times and lost one final during a run of reaching the semifinals or better in 11 consecutive years. “[I played against somebody] I haven’t faced before, which is quite rare, but felt like her game was a little bit unpredictable”.

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose – and today I won”. “In the last six, seven years, I haven’t heard anything similar”.

She lacked pop on her serve, hitting just one ace to five for Konta, and couldnt match the No. 47-ranked players power from the baseline.

Other seeded players advancing included No. 12 Belinda Bencic, who had a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Timea Babos, and No. 13 Roberta Vinci, who beat Irina Falconi 6-2, 6-3.

Williams beat Su-Wei Hsieh 6-2, 6-1 in exactly one hour Tuesday to reach the third round of the Australian Open.

“It all started here”.

Trying to move on from the Vinci shocker, Williams was clearly bored by the time the fourth question came around.

Williams’ next opponent will be an 18-year-old – she’ll face the victor of the match between Russia’s Daria Kasatkina and Croatia’s Ana Konjuh, who were both born the year before Williams’ first Australian Open.