{"id":165,"date":"2021-02-09T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/?p=165"},"modified":"2021-02-09T14:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:21:48","slug":"australian-open-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/2021\/02\/09\/australian-open-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open – Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Day 2 at the Aussie Open is complete and with that the end of the first round is here. There were some surprising results yesterday and today was no different. Hurkacz, Evans, Anderson and Struff dropped out in the Mens draw. Sakkari, Azarenka and Konta dropped out in the Ladies draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huge changes in the leaderboard as well today. We have a completely different top 5! Notable movers were teams “RF”, “Perfect Pam”, “Lorna’s Leaderboard” and “Aud’s Awesome Ozzie Team”. Perfect Pam moving up an astonishing 39 places, from tied last to 2nd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the leaderboard after Day 2 and heading into Round 2. Still a long way to go! The left hand column represents positions gained or lost for each team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations to Gillian’s team for topping the leaderboard after Round 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Very close at the top. Good luck to all the teams. Bring on Round 2!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some notable results on Day 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barty<\/strong> getting the maximum amount of points after beating Kovinic 6-0; 6-0. Well done to all the teams that picked her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pegula<\/strong> defeating Azarenka 7-5; 6-4. She was 5-2 down in the first set and won an astonishing 5 games in a row. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defending champion Kenin<\/strong> won her first round match. She beat Australian Inglish – 7-5; 6-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Svitolina<\/strong> beat Bouzkova 6-3; 7-6(5). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kontaveit<\/strong> beat Sasnovich 7-5; 6-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tsitsipas <\/strong>won easily defeating Simon 6-1; 6-2; 6-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berrettini <\/strong>had a tight straight set win against ,South African, Kevin Anderson. He won 7-6(9), 7-5, 6-3. He had to save 7 set points in the first set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadal <\/strong>beat Djere 6-3; 6-4; 6-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medvedev <\/strong>beat Pospisil 6-2; 6-2; 6-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albot <\/strong>knocking out 12th seed Bautista Agut – 6-7(1); 6-0; 6-4; 7-6(5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Popyrin <\/strong>beat Goffin in a 5 set encounter – 3-6; 6-4; 6-7(4); 7-6(6); 6-3. He saved 2 match points in the 4th set tiebreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris <\/strong>beat Torpegaard 4-6; 6-3; 6-2; 6-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ymer <\/strong>beat 26th seed Hurkacz 3-6; 6-3; 3-6; 7-5; 6-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matches to watch tomorrow:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wawrinka vs Fucsovics (03:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Djokovic vs Tiafoe (05:15)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opelka vs Fritz (06:30)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shapovalov vs Tomic (07:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyrgios vs Humbert (10:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabalenka vs Kasatkina (02:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venus Williams vs Errani (05:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jabeur vs Schmiedlova (05:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swiatek vs Giorgi (06:15)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Osaka vs Garcia (10:00)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 2 at the Aussie Open is complete and with that the end of the first round is here. There were some surprising results yesterday and today was no different. Hurkacz, Evans, Anderson and Struff dropped out in the Mens draw. Sakkari, Azarenka and Konta dropped out in the Ladies draw. Huge changes in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}