Dad-To-Be Murray In A Hurry For Third Slam Title

Medical teams were assisting with the emergency. The stadium announcer said play would be suspended until medical teams could fully assist an injured spectator.

The match was immediately delayed as Ivanovic watched on in concern from her chair. Better fortunes fell upon another Spaniard, namely Feliciano Lopez.

Isner, originally from North Carolina, is a big fan of the Carolina Panthers, the team where the so-called dab originated, courtesy of quarterback Cam Newton.

Azarenka, who won the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013, plays Japanese qualifier Naomi Osaka.

The No. 20 seed has looked solid through her first two matches. He said: “‘No, it’s first time I’ve ever been out there, first time I even practiced on it'”. Muguruza is attempting to make the fourth round here for the third year in a row.

Murray, faced with the world record-breaking serve of the physically imposing Sam Groth, had all the answers as he won 6-0, 6-4, 6-1 in just 91 minutes against the flummoxed Australian. “It’s really impossible to say if it’s the best you’ve played because the matchups can dictate that a bit”.

That’s a tall order.

Two-time Grand Slam victor Stan Wawrinka faces a tough test against Lukas Rosol. “I’m just going to go in there happy and hopefully try to pull off an upset”, she said. “I didn’t get to eat”, she said.

The biggest news around the tennis world in this week was not the beginning of the first slam of the year, but rather a lengthy report released by the BBC and BuzzFeed News claiming that there is a growing problem of match fixing within tennis. “He knows how to win”.

The British No1 got a little tight as she tried to close out the win but these days, she has learned to embrace her nerves and treat them as part of the process of winning.

Federer, a four-time Australian Open champion, beat Dimitrov in the quarterfinals at the Brisbane International two weeks ago, dropping a set to the Bulgarian player for the first time. He reasserted control, however, to go on another run of games and in doing so take the set 6-4.

“I think I held serve, got a game on the board, released a few nerves and probably just started playing the way I wanted to”, Groth said. “I want to take a moment and give thoughts to that community. Today’s victory was for that community, and a quick recovery and all of Canada, and I’m sure the world is behind you”.

Third-seeded Garbine Muguruza, the 2015 Wimbledon finalist, advanced with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Kirsten Flipkens, No. 7 Angelique Kerber and No. 15 Madison Keys also advanced. Canadian Raonic will be up against Viktor Troicki. I could have done that better.

Azarenka needed barely an hour to cruise past Kovinic 6-1, 6-2. Keys later lost to Serena Williams in the semis after beating three seeded players along the way. He didn’t really start serving well or how well he can serve until maybe, you know, middle of the second set.

Sousa had a foothold and as Murray huffed and puffed, his opponent broke again to seal the set and level up.

Meanwhile, a massive theme at this year’s Australian Open – the underdogs rising up against the favorites – continued, as Barbora Strycova stunned the No. 3 seed, Garbiñe Muguruza, 6-3, 6-2, and No. 21 seed Ekaterina Makarova took out No. 9 seed Karolina Pliskova by the same scoreline, 6-3, 6-2.

The strategy, however, proved disastrous as Murray won 31 out of Groth’s 46 ventures to the net and broke his opponent seven times in total.