Novak Djokovic advances to the second round of Australian Open

Genie Bouchard advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 win against Alexandra Krunic.

Serena Williams has had so much success for such a long time that even in a second-round match she can set a record at the season’s first Grand Slam event.

“I haven’t played any matches in many weeks”, Sharapova said.

Serena Williams of the United States serves in her first-round match against Camila Giorgi of Italy.

“I play very hard, and every player I play seems to play hard”, she said.

“When the draw came out and I saw who I was playing, I was like “Well, I hope to stay out there for more than an hour”, she said after her match.

“Of course, there were some long rallies, long exchanges that got both of us a little bit short on air but I think physically I was really good on the court”.

“I really gave a big effort there”.

“It’s very dry here so actually I didn’t sweat much”. 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 straight years.

The Australian Open is the first real place to see if if she can. He said everything started looking up for him when he became a dad back in 2014, then joked about maybe having another baby.

No. 15 David Goffin had a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win over Sergiy Stakhovsky, and No. 22 Ivo Karlovic was the first of the seeded players to exit the tournament when he retired due to a left knee injury in the third set while trailing Federico Delbonis 7-6 (4), 6-4, 2-1. Dominic Thiem, No. 26 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and No. 27 Grigor Dimitrov.

Another former champion, women’s fifth seed Maria Sharapova, takes on Japan’s Nao Hibino in the primetime match on Margaret Court Arena but local eyes might be more on Hisense Arena where Australian young gun Nick Kyrgios plays Pablo Carreno Busta.

Kvitova next faces Daria Gavrilova on Wednesday for a place in the last 32 after Australia’s rising star ousted Czech Lucie Hradecka 7-6 (6-3), 6-4 in her opener. The 16th-seeded Wozniacki was up a service break in the second set. She has lost to Williams 17 consecutive times.

She wrapped it up in 41 minutes and with Williams producing a costly 14 unforced errors.

Wearing a canary yellow pleated skirt and matching midriff-baring shirt, displaying her pierced navel, Williams was composed but not her usual clinical self during the draining workout.

However, the day was overshadowed by a report which said top-50 players, including Grand Slam champions, had repeatedly been suspected of match-fixing without facing action.

Seven-time Grand Slam champion Williams, who won the inaugural WTA Elite Trophy in 2015 as well as tournaments in Auckland and Wuhan, never got her game going.