Andy Murray brands Australian Open ‘a little bit hypocritical’ for William

Murray, though, was focused and efficient as he dismissed the challenge of Alexander Zverev 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 yesterday to set up a second-round appointment with Sam Groth.

The 22-year-old Spaniard retired during her first match at an Australian Open warmup tournament in Brisbane because of an injured left foot earlier this month but showed no signs of difficulty at Melbourne Park.

Light rain is falling at Melbourne Park, delaying the start of play on side courts at the Australian Open on Wednesday.

Madison Keys of the United States makes a forehand return to Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016.

Young tennis players need to be educated about the implications of match-fixing and the sport needs to be more proactive in talking about the issue, world number two Andy Murray said on Tuesday.

Australia is probably sick of the sight of Andy Murray as he lines up another shot at one of the country’s star players.

Hewitt, who has already been named Australia’s Davis Cup captain, announced previous year that the Australian Open would be his final tournament. And, yeah, I guess as a player you just want to be made aware kind of everything that’s going on.

Venus Williams tried to rally, winning two games and getting another break-point chance after falling a set and 5-0 behind, before her 16th trip to the Australian Open finished in a first-round loss to Johanna Konta.

“I think there’s just one avenue to go to”, Haase said.

Scot has warned that tennis needs to do “a better job” of warning young players about the perils of match-fixing. I don’t believe the players are allowed to be sponsored by betting companies but then the tournaments are.

“I’m always very curious with that stuff across really all sports, as well”, he said. “So I think it can be only positive”.

“It’s a fine line”. Hopefully I will serve well and it doesn’t come back. “Whether you want to have betting companies involved in the big tournaments in our sport or not, it’s hard to say what’s right and what’s wrong”. But it does. No sports are clean of doping and none are clean of fixing.

Roddick wrote on Twitter: “Text I got from another former tour pro ‘we should see how numerous 16 betting guys we can name”.

Kermode said he “absolutely rejects” the suggestion that match-fixing evidence had been suppressed and dismissed comparisons with other corruption cover-ups in football at FIFA and in athletics at the IAAF.

As reported by Yahoo, Murray urged the Tennis authorities to be proactive in the fight against corruption in the game.

“I think todays match was kind of like very similar in terms of the (2009) semi, going to a fifth set, ” Verdasco said. But I can’t take it out.

He will be hoping to record a 15th straight victory against an Australian in official matches and maintain a run against the nation which now stretches back 11 years.