Australian Open: Djokovic and Sharapova move to third round

World no.1 and defending champion Novak Djokovic beat 20 years old American Ryan Harrison 3-0 and moves to the third round of the Australian Open tennis championship.

Playing on the Rod Laver Arena, the Serbian beat the American 6-1 6-2 6-3. In the third set at 4-2, the American put up a stiff resistance and played deuce after deuce to finally win the his game to take the score to 4-3. However, Djokovic won the next two games to win the third set 6-3.

In the women's single category, world no.2 Maria Sharapova of Russia beat Japanese Misaki Doi in straight sets 6-0 6-0 to move to the third round.

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The other matches that were played today were as under:
Men's Singles:

David Ferrer (4 - ESP) def Tim Smyczek 6-0 7-5 4-6 6-3
Tomas Berdych (5 - CZE) def Guillaume Rufin 6-2 6-2 6-4
Nicolas Almagro (10 - ESP) def Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-4 6-1 6-2

Women's Singles:
Maria Sharapova (2 - RUS) def Misaki Doi 6-0 6-0
Agnieszka Radwanska (4 - POL) def Irina-Camelia Begu 6-3 6-3
Angelique Kerber (5 - GER) def Lucie Hradecka 6-3 6-1
Jie Zheng (CHN) def Samantha Stosur (9 - AUS) 6-4 1-6 7-5
Venus Williams (25 - USA) def Alize Cornet 6-3 6-3
Na Li (6 - CHN) def Olga Govortsova 6-2 7-5
Ana Ivanovic (13 - SRB) def Yung-Jan Chan 7-5 1-6 6-4

The upset of the day was the match between world 9 Australian Samantha Stosur and 40th ranked Chinese Jie Zheng. The Chinese beat the Australian  6-4 1-6 7-5 and ousts world no.9 from the Australian Open.

On Day-4, 17th January, world no.2 Roger Federer, world no.3 Andy Murray, world no.7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will play their second round matches.

In the women's singles world no.1 Victoria Azarenka , world no.3 Serena Williams, world no.8 Petra Kvitova and world nho.10 Caroline Wozniacki will play theiur second round of matches.

Complete results are given at the official website of Australian Open 

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World No.1 Azarenka beaten by Serena Williams - WTA Istanbul

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What many thought to be expected, world no.1 Victoria Azarenka was taken aback by US Open and Wimbledon Champion world no. 3 American Serena Williams 6-4, 6-4. Thus Azarenka failed to avenge her defeat at the hands of Williams at the US Open finally this year.

Azarenka had just yesterday overcome a strong resistance from German Angelique Kerber and lost the first set 6(11) -7(13). But regained the match and beat the German winning the next two sets 7(7)-6(2), 6-4. And it was thought that she would not be a hot pie for Serena to eat easily. But Serena found it easy to beat Azarenka just like that.

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In the first match fo the Day-3, 7th ranked Chinese Na Li beat 6th ranked German Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-3. Na Li was earlier beaten by Serena Williams 7(7)-6(2), 6-3 on Day 2.