Rain delays Australian Open start on side courts

Bencic also said she was learning how to cope with all the media attention around her. “When you’re a good junior and you have the success early, you have to learn it and you have to deal with it”, she said. That is the third-longest streak in WTA history after Steffi Graf’s 186 in a row and Martina Navratilova’s 156.

She has never reached the fourth round.

Federer on Friday became the only male tennis player ever to win 300 Grand Slam matches.

Australian Open 2016 from 18 January – 31 January 2016.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – The countless records and accolades accumulated over a long and illustrious career don’t in any way diminish Roger Federer’s satisfaction when he sets yet another benchmark.

Belgian 15th seed David Goffin defeated friend and training partner Dominic Thiem, with the Austrian losing 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 7-5. “I am quite happy that I was able to step up in the third set”. Puig didn’t win another game after that.

The Russian went for a toilet break to compose herself and came back refreshed, holding serve and breaking to go 2-0 in front before another break in the fourth game put her on the way to victory as Davis faded. “I think it’s just absurd”, Djokovic said.

Later to celebrate the accolade she slipped into a black t-shirt to receive a cake to mark the occasion. 6-4, 7-6, 7-6; Nishikori d. Two, Sharapova is renowned for her third-set toughness. She even hit one shot around the post in the match, which she said afterward was the first in her career.

“Yeah, I felt like I made it a little bit more hard than I should have”, Sharapova said.

She says, “I don’t do bananas anymore”.

Nishikori reached the 2014 U.S. Open final and the quarterfinals at the Australian and French Opens in 2015 before withdrawing from his second-round match at Wimbledon with an injured left leg.

Belinda Bencic talks to the press following her third round win at the 2016 Australian Open. He’ll next play 2008 Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat fellow Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-4, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4).

This is the first meeting between the two players and it should be a fun match to watch.

Dimitrov had just held serve to start the match when rain began falling and the match was briefly suspended while the roof was closed.

No. 103 Lauren Davis didn’t make it easy on five-time major champion Maria Sharapova, taking the match to three sets. Seven doubles matches were later postponed.

Williams faces another Russian youngster, Margarita Gasparyan, in the fourth round, while Sharapova will have to get the better of Bencic in order to reach the last eight.

She’s an inspired young player who’s been playing incredibly well for the last season.