Thursday, 18 January, 2007
Australian Open, Melbourne Park, Melbourne:

Men’s Singles 2nd rd:

(5) James Blake (USA) bt Alex Kuznetsov (USA) 6-4 6-1 6-2

(13) Tomas Berdych (Cze) bt Robert Smeets (Aus) 6-3 6-2 6-4

Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) bt (17) Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) 6-3 2-6 6-4 6-4

(21) Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) bt Max Mirnyi (Blr) 6-2 6-3 7-6 (7-4)

(19) Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) bt Frank Dancevic (Can) 6-4 6-4 3-6 6-4

Robby Ginepri (USA) bt Mischa Zverev (Ger) 6-4 7-5 6-1

(15) Andrew Murray (Gbr) bt Fernando Verdasco (Spa) 7-6 (7-4) 7-5 6-4

Fabrice Santoro (Fra) bt Arnaud Clement (Fra) 6-2 6-4 6-4

(8) David Nalbandian (Arg) bt Nicolas Lapentti (Ecu) 6-4 6-4 6-4

(28) Sebastien Grosjean (Fra) bt Olivier Rochus (Bel) 4-6 6-1 6-3 4-6 6-4

(31) Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) bt Paul Capdeville (Chi) 6-4 6-3 6-2



Women’s Singles 2nd rd:

(4) Kim Clijsters (Bel) bt Akiko Morigami (Jpn) 6-3 6-0

(6) Martina Hingis (Swi) bt Alla Kudryavtseva (Rus) 6-2 6-2

Aiko Nakamura (Jpn) bt Sania Mirza (Ind) 6-3 6-2

(22) Vera Zvonareva (Rus) bt Tamira Paszek (Aut) 6-1 6-3

(29) Alona Bondarenko (Ukr) bt Virginie Razzano (Fra) 6-3 5-4

(30) Tathiana Garbin (Ita) bt Renata Voracova (Cze) 6-1 7-5

Alicia Molik (Aus) bt Kaia Kanepi (Est) 1-6 6-3 6-2

(12) Anna Chakvetadze (Rus) bt Laura Granville (USA) 6-2 5-7 6-1

(15) Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) bt Emilie Loit (Fra) 4-6 6-3 6-4

(19) Na Li (Chn) bt Lourdes Dominguez Lino (Spa) 6-0 6-2

Ashley Harkleroad (USA) bt (17) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Ger) 6-2 6-2

(13) Ana Ivanovic (Ser) bt Agnieska Radwanska (Pol) 6-2 3-6 6-2

(9) Dinara Safina (Rus) bt Youlia Fedossova (Fra) 6-3 6-2

(1) Maria Sharapova (Rus) bt Anastassia Rodionova (Rus) 6-0 6-3

nice effort from canadian frank dancevic to take a set off hewitt.

but i expected to see a bit more of a fight from the likes of clement and lapentti.