Serena expects Venus to be back in Melbourne next year

She reached the quarterfinals at the Australian and U.S. Opens – the first and last majors of the year. He has said he’ll leave immediately, regardless of the stage of the tournament, if his wife, Kim, goes into labor in London with their first child.

“What (is there) to say? But Kim will message my team if anything’s going on during the matches, and I’ll see what happens”.

“I don’t really know”, Serena said.

“It’s actually something that I had to add, because I was getting really frustrated losing to my hitting partner all the time”.

Dispelling any doubts about her fitness and form, the 34-year-old American moved freely on the troublesome knee that forced her to quit the Hopman Cup mid-match two weeks ago.

Djokovic lost to Santoro 6-3, 6-2 in the second round of the Paris Masters indoor tournament in October 2007.

Now, her focus has returned to tennis and the 21-time Grand Slam victor says she’s fit despite her time off and a recent injury.

“Dolgopolov is a different player, a different level”, Federer said. Roger Federer agreed, and said people making the accusations should name names. 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 straight years.

“I mean, I had a couple of good (drop-shots), I had a couple of really crappy ones”.

“That’s always something that especially when it’s like in the hand/wrist area, it’s in the back of your mind even though you’re [not] feeling it”.

Nishikori and Krajicek grew up training together at the Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, and they were facing each other in a match for the second time after the Japanese star won in three sets in Memphis previous year.

Aljaz Bedene, Britain’s number two who has switched nationality from Slovenia, lost 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7/3) to America’s Steve Johnson while qualifier Dan Evans was also beaten in straight sets, defeated 6-1 6-0 6-4 to Feliciano Lopez, the eighth seed from Spain.

Andrea Petkovic (US Open, August 2015): That win over Muguruza set up a third-round showdown with Petkovic and Konta produced another upset to send the world number 18 packing with a 7-6 (7/2) 6-3 triumph.

The 17-time grand slam champion was never in trouble against the 35th-ranked Ukrainian and strolled to a regulation 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 win in one hour 33 minutes on Rod Laver Arena.

“It all started here”. “Today I just didn’t get my game out but it’s one day out of however many I have been away from home, training every day and practising well”.

Petra Kvitova became the latest women’s top-10 player to fall, joining Simona Halep and Venus Williams on the sidelines when she was shocked 6-4, 6-4 by Australian giant-killer Daria Gavrilova.

World No. 5 Maria Sharapova continued her dominating performance at the Australian Open tennis tournament, taking out unseeded Aliaksandra Sasnovich, 6-2, 6-1, in Melbourne city on Wednesday.

Federer will next play Grigor Dimitrov, who has a style that has been compared with Federer’s, after the No. 27-seeded player beat Marco Trungelliti 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.