{"id":950,"date":"2023-01-16T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/?p=950"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:22:10","slug":"the-start-of-the-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/2023\/01\/16\/the-start-of-the-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start of the Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first grand slam of the year has arrived! The rowdy Australian crowds always bring the energy which makes this grand slam a lot of fun.  Welcome to all the entrants and to all the regulars. Thank you to everyone who entered. We managed to get about 50 entries in the last 2 days which is incredible. This meant that we surpassed out 60 entrants goal as we managed to get <strong>63 entries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new year of tennis is upon us which means new possibilities. Who will be the champions of the Australian Open 2023. We will have to wait and see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prizes up for grabs this time round<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1st Place &#8211; <strong>R1000<\/strong><\/li><li>2nd Place<strong> &#8211; R500<\/strong><\/li><li>3rd Place &#8211; <strong>R220<\/strong><\/li><li>4th Place &#8211; <strong>R100<\/strong><\/li><li>5th Place &#8211; <strong>R70<\/strong><\/li><li>Last Place &#8211; <strong>The legendary wooden spoon<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are the most picked players for this year&#8217;s Aussie Open:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Djokovic<\/strong> &#8211; 33 picks  (52.38%)<\/li><li><strong>Ruud &#8211; <\/strong>21 picks  (33.33%)<\/li><li><strong>Nadal &#8211; <\/strong>19 picks  (30.16%)<\/li><li><strong>Medvedev, Auger-Aliassime &#8211; <\/strong>18 picks  (28.57%)<\/li><li><strong>Kyrgios &#8211; <\/strong>16 picks (25.40)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Swiatek &#8211; <\/strong>43 picks<\/li><li><strong>Jabeur<\/strong> &#8211; 30 picks <\/li><li><strong>Pegula &#8211; <\/strong>13 picks<\/li><li><strong>Garcia, Bencic &#8211; <\/strong>12 picks<\/li><li><strong>Keys &#8211; <\/strong>10 picks<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall there were <strong>51 <\/strong>different <strong>Male Picks <\/strong>and there were <strong>49 <\/strong>different <strong>Ladies Picks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here is the full leaderboard for the first time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"673\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Aussie-Open-2023-Begins-top-half.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-951\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Aussie-Open-2023-Begins-top-half.png 457w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Aussie-Open-2023-Begins-top-half-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"458\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Aussie-Open-2023-Begins-bottom-half.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-952\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Aussie-Open-2023-Begins-bottom-half.png 458w, http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/Aussie-Open-2023-Begins-bottom-half-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matches to Watch on Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Edmund vs Sinner(15)   (02:00)<\/li><li>Ivashka vs van de Zandschulp(32)  (02:00)<\/li><li>Lajovic vs Shapovalov(20)  (03:15)<\/li><li>Nakashima vs McDonald   (03:15)<\/li><li>Korda(29) vs Garin   (03:15)<\/li><li>Lehecka vs Coric(21)  (05:15)<\/li><li>Nadal(1) vs Draper  (05:30)<\/li><li>Baez vs Kubler   (06:30)<\/li><li>Musetti(17) vs Harris  (07:00)<\/li><li>Pospisil vs Auger-Aliassime(6)   (09:00)<\/li><li>Giron vs Medvedev(7)   (11:15)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Siniakova vs Gauff(7)  (02:00)<\/li><li>Andreescu vs Bouzkova(25)   (02:00)<\/li><li>Kalinskaya vs Collins(13)   (02:00)<\/li><li>Kostyuk vs Anisimova(28)   (02:00)<\/li><li>Van Uytvanck vs Kvitova(15)  (04:00)<\/li><li>Yastremska vs Ostapenko(17)  (04:30)<\/li><li>Kenin vs Azarenka(24)  (05:15)<\/li><li>Rybakina(22) vs Cocciaretto  (07:15)<\/li><li>Teichmann(32) vs Dart  (07:15)<\/li><li>Swiatek(1) vs Niemeier  (10:00)<\/li><li>Keys(10) vs Blinkova  (12:00)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first grand slam of the year has arrived! The rowdy Australian crowds always bring the energy which makes this grand slam a lot of fun. Welcome to all the entrants and to all the regulars. Thank you to everyone who entered. We managed to get about 50 entries in the last 2 days which [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-open-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}