There was nothing too unexpected happening in Melbourne yesterday aside from the fact that the 17th seed Paire were upset in straight sets and that Karlovic withdrew due to injury. The top two seeds in action yesterday, Djokovic and Federer, both won in straight sets.
Djokovic defeated Chung who I was quite impressed with 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 while Federer made short work of someone called Basilashvili 6-2, 6-1, 6-2. I couldn’t watch Federer’s match as well but Basilashvili is ranked 118th so that’s about the scoreline you’d expect.
As for Chung, his singles ranking is 52 and this was the second time I saw him play since he lost in three tiebreak sets to Stan at the US Open. He looked very comfortable out there not intimidated by his opponent or the stage he was playing on.
Djokovic joins the winner’s list https://t.co/Tqan7pwQUl
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His shots are unorthodox and I don’t remember him approaching the net once. Just a player with good movement and baseline consistency. Kind of like Djokovic but, of course, Djokovic has many more dimensions to his game.
He made Djokovic work for it and to win nine games against Djokovic in which could be considered Djokovic’s own back yard and his best surface is a bit special. Sure it was only a first round, but like I said Chung didn’t show any nerves.
He played like he belonged there and he is still only 19 years old. So I think this player has a great future ahead of him and he is a lot of time to add more dimensions to his game and become more complete.
Backhand Magic https://t.co/7mimzfisyL
— Roger Federer Fans (@Federer_Swiss) January 18, 2016
So, in the end, good starts from both Djokovic and Federer but certainly Djokovic had the bigger test and he passed with flying colors. It’s a bit harder to tell with Federer but, at least, it seems he is over his health problems.
We should get a better idea about Federer in his next match when he plays Dolgopolov who defeated Berankis in four sets, but especially if he plays Dimitrov in the third round. Dimitrov had a straight set victory over Lorenzi who just won a challenger.
Dimitrov ended up losing in the Sydney final to Troicki but it was a terrific match that Troicki won 9-7 in the third set breaker so it could have gone either way. So it looks like Dimitrov could be a decent test for Federer if he keeps it together mentally.
Djokovic, on the other hand, plays Halys next and I think we could see some more bakery products here.
Elsewhere in the Draw
Thiem won his match against Mayer which I was happy to see but he made things an awful lot harder for himself than it should have been. He looked very good until 6-2, 5-4, and 40-15 but then dropped serve and ended up winning 6-2, 7-6(8), 4-6, 7-6.
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That’s a hell of a lot more complicated than it should have been but I have known for some time now that there are question marks around Thiem’s mental fortitude. But he is still young and he does have a very nice-looking game.
Then Kyrgios defeated Carreno Busta 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 which is a decent win and a third round between him and Berdych could be interesting. I’d like to see Kyrgios make a strong run to the quarterfinals at least.
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