{"id":624,"date":"2022-01-19T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/?p=624"},"modified":"2022-01-19T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T15:02:17","slug":"australian-open-day-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/2022\/01\/19\/australian-open-day-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open &#8211; Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s post is going to be a short one because I want to get it out now and not much later tonight. Svitolina struggled through her second round match as she was taken to 3 sets. Azarenka, Barty, Badosa, Pegula, Kudermteova, Krejcikova, Osaka and Sakkari all cruised through their 2nd round matches. 22nd seed Bencic was knocked out by American Anisimova who has started her 2022 with 7 straight wins. Another seed that was knocked out was the 32nd seed Sorribes Tormo who lost to teenager Kostyuk in straight sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the mens side their were some easy matches and some 5 setters. Carreno-Busta the 19th seed was taken to 5 sets by Griekspoor. The 19th seed coming through 6-4 in the 5th. Korda came through a 5 set match against Moutet which ended 10-6 in the super tiebreak. 14th seed, Shapovalov found himself 2 sets to 1 down before mounting a comeback against South Korean Kwon. 16th seed, Garin came through in another 5 set match, this time against Spaniard Martinez. Monfils, Zverev, Nadal, Khachanov, Karatsev, Alcaraz, Berrettini and Opelka all came through their 2nd round encounters in a comfortable fashion. The big upset of the day was Frenchman, Mannarino, knocking out the 10th seed, Hurkacz in straight sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Justice&#8217; retakes the overall lead as they are the first team to reach 100 points. &#8216;Aussie Express&#8217; move up to 2nd 11 points behind the leader. &#8216;Root Shots&#8217; sit in the last podium position with &#8216;You&#8217;ve Met Your Match&#8217; moving down from 1st to 4th. On the other end of the leaderboard, &#8216;Meerkat&#8217; sits in the wooden spoon position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"755\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/Day-3-Top-Half.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-626\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/Day-3-Top-Half.png 445w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/Day-3-Top-Half-177x300.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><figcaption>Top Half<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"670\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/Day-3-Bottom-Half-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/Day-3-Bottom-Half-1.png 456w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/Day-3-Bottom-Half-1-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><figcaption>Bottom Half<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matches to watch tomorrow:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Evans(24) vs Rinderknech  (03:15)<\/li><li>Tiafoe vs Fritz(20)  (04:00)<\/li><li>Dimitrov(26) vs Paire  (05:15)<\/li><li>Davidovich Fokina vs Auger-Aliassime(9)  (05:15)<\/li><li>Majchrzak vs De Minaur(32)  (05:30)<\/li><li> Kyrgios vs Medvedev(2)  (10:00)<\/li><li>Cornet vs Muguruza(3)  (02:00)<\/li><li>Konjuh vs Collins(27)  (02:00)<\/li><li>Vondrousova(31) vs Samsonova  (02:00)<\/li><li>Linette vs Kasatkina(25)  (04:00)<\/li><li>Kanepi vs Bouzkova  (05:45)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is going to be a short one because I want to get it out now and not much later tonight. Svitolina struggled through her second round match as she was taken to 3 sets. Azarenka, Barty, Badosa, Pegula, Kudermteova, Krejcikova, Osaka and Sakkari all cruised through their 2nd round matches. 22nd seed Bencic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":627,"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australian-open-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}