{"id":170,"date":"2021-02-10T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/?p=170"},"modified":"2021-02-10T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:34:34","slug":"australian-open-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/2021\/02\/10\/australian-open-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open – Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From Halep coming back from 5-2 down in the third set, Kyrgios saving a match point to win in 5 sets, Djokovic being put under pressure by Tiafoe or Thiem flying into the 3rd round – day 3 had it all. There were also some big upsets on Day 3: Kvitova, Andreescu and Rybakina crashing out in the Ladies draw. Wawrinka and Humbert crashing out in the mens draw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of the fantasy tournament, ‘Guys and Dolls’ remain in the lead. A few changes though, throughout the rest of the field. A few people who picked Halep and Kyrgios were on edge today but thankfully both scraped through. Here is the leaderboard after Day 3. PS, I am loving the banter on the website!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations to Gillian for holding onto her lead from yesterday. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

With only half of Round 2 complete, lots more changes will be made before the end of the round. Can “Guys and Dolls” hold onto the lead for a third consecutive day? Only time will tell! Bring on tomorrow! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some notable matches from Day 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fucsovics<\/strong> coming back from 6-9 in the super tiebreak to beat Wawrinka – 7-5; 6-1; 4-6; 2-6; 7-6(9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Djokovic<\/strong> struggling in the heat but still managing to beat Tiafoe – 6-3; 6-7(3); 7-6(2); 6-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thiem<\/strong> flying into the third round defeating Koepfer 6-4; 6-0; 6-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritz<\/strong> winning a five set thriller against fellow American Opelka – 4-6; 7-6(6); 6-7(4); 7-6(5); 6-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyrgios<\/strong> beating Humbert to some teams delight and other teams disappointment – 5-7; 6-4; 3-6; 7-6(2); 6-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hsieh<\/strong> beat Andreescu 6-3; 6-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cirstea<\/strong> knocked out Kvitova 6-4; 1-6; 6-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferro<\/strong> knocking out 17th seed Rybakina 6-4; 6-4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And last but not least the amazing effort by Halep<\/strong> to come back from 5-2 down in the third set. She managed to win 5 games in a row to defeated Australian Tomljanovic – 4-6; 6-3; 7-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some matches to look out for tomorrow:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collins vs Pliskova (02:00) – Collins defeating Pliskova last week. Can she do it again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barty vs Gavrilova (03:15) – All Australian encounter. Intriguing…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenin vs Kanepi (04:00) – Kanepi defeated Kenin in their last encounter. Can she do it again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kontaveit vs Watson (05:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gauff vs Svitolina (10:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Popyrin vs Harris (03:15)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruud vs Paul (03:30)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tsitsipas vs Kokkinakis (04:30)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

From Halep coming back from 5-2 down in the third set, Kyrgios saving a match point to win in 5 sets, Djokovic being put under pressure by Tiafoe or Thiem flying into the 3rd round – day 3 had it all. There were also some big upsets on Day 3: Kvitova, Andreescu and Rybakina crashing […]<\/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-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}