{"id":182,"date":"2021-02-12T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T13:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/?p=182"},"modified":"2021-02-12T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:38:23","slug":"australian-open-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/2021\/02\/12\/australian-open-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open &#8211; Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last day with crowds and what a day it was. With Melbourne going into a 5-day lockdown, there will sadly be no fans for the next 5 days. What a day today was! A superb fight back from Thiem to beat Australian Nick Kyrgios in 5 sets after being 2 sets to love down and 2 break points down in his first service game in the third set. Taylor Fritz also managing to come back from 2 sets down but he couldn&#8217;t get over the line. Djokovic managing to fight through pain to beat Fritz in 5 sets. Karatsev continues his good form knocking out the ninth seed Schwartzman in straight sets. Could be a player to watch&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Guys and Dolls&#8221; managing to maintain their lead. So far an absolutely dominant display and I&#8217;m starting to wonder if anyone can catch them. Still a long way to go though. Today Kyrgios, Mannarino, Shapovalov and Fritz crashing out in the men&#8217;s draw and Jabeur was the only female pick to crash out on day 5. Below is the leaderboard after Day 5 and half of round 3.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Capture-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184\" width=\"311\" height=\"665\" \/><figcaption>Gillian continues to lead. Second place remains a fight.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A few nervous moment today as Thiem and Djokovic both surviving by the skin of their teeth. What does tomorrow hold? Only time will tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some notable matches from Day 5:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thiem <\/strong>managing to beat not only Kyrgios but also the crowd in a 5 set thriller &#8211; 4-6; 4-6; 6-3; 6-4; 6-4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Djokovic <\/strong>managing to fight through pain to get past Fritz in 5 sets &#8211; 7-6(1); 6-4; 3-6; 4-6; 6-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Karatsev <\/strong>defeated ninth seed Schwartzman &#8211; 6-3; 6-3 ;6-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Osaka <\/strong>beat Jabeur 6-3; 6-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some matches to watch out for tomorrow:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muchova vs Pliskova (02:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bencic vs Mertens  (05:15)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barty vs Alexandrova (10:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Krajinovic vs Medvedev  (03:15)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris vs Mcdonald    (03:20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khachanov vs Berrettini (08:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fognini vs De Minaur  (11:15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last day with crowds and what a day it was. With Melbourne going into a 5-day lockdown, there will sadly be no fans for the next 5 days. What a day today was! A superb fight back from Thiem to beat Australian Nick Kyrgios in 5 sets after being 2 sets to love down [&hellip;]<\/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-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}