Australian Open Update - Day 1: Venus Williams knocked out of Melbourne

Updated | 01:02 GMT | 6:02 PM  Pakistan Standard Time (Djokovic wins over Lacko - Serena Williams beat Barty)

It was a bad start for elder Williams sister, Venus Williams, today at Melbourne Australia when she was knocked out of the race early morning at the hands of Russian 22nd seed Ekaterina Makarova 2-6 6-4 6-4 after seemingly having the match at her mercy. 

Venus Williams (left) knocked out - Li moves on

However, the day started brighter for the fourth seed Chinese Li, the two-time Melbourne Park finalist, who beat Croatian junior Ana Konjuh 6-2 6-0 to ease into the women's singles second round. 

Australians Sam Stosur, the 17th seed, and Casey Dellacqua also moved into the second round with contrasting straight-sets wins. 

The details of some of the important women singles first round matches is as under: 

17-Samantha Stosur (Australia) beat Klara Zakopalova (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-4 

14-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) beat Kiki Bertens (Netherlands) 6-4 6-4  

9-Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat Jarmila Gajdosova (Australia) 6-3 0-6 6-2 

As for the men'a singles matches on day, no extra ordinary ouster was witnessed, except that of German Tommy Haas who retired in the second set against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain . The results of some of the top seeded players, who move to the second round, are as under:

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) beat 12-Tommy Haas (Germany) 7-5 5-2 (Haas retired)  

9-Richard Gasquet (France) beat David Guez (France) 7-5 6-4 6-1 

7-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) beat Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Ukraine) 6-3 6-4 6-3

3-David Ferrer (Spain) beat Alejandro Gonzalez (Colombia) 6-3 6-4 6-4  

14-Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) beat Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany) 6-1 6-4 6-2 

8-Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) beat Andrey Golubev (Kazakhstan) 6-4 4-1 (Golubev retired)

The latest new in is that Djokovic has beaten Lacko 6-3 7-6 (7-2) 6-1 and moves over to the second round.

In the last match of the day, world no.1 Serena Williams beat Ashleigh Barty 6-2, 6-1 in straight sets and marched into the second round of the 2014 Australian Open.

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Top Stars move on to second round of Australian Open

The matches of first day of the first round of Australian Open are almost over and the top stars of the tennis world successfully overcame their opponents and move to the second round of the Australian Open.

The results of the first day are as under:

Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic (1-Serb)      defeated Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) 6-2, 6-4, 7-5
Nicolas Almagro (10-Esp)     defeated Steve Johnson 7-5 6-7(4) 6-2 6-7(6) 6-2
Fernando Verdasco (22-Esp) defeated David Goffin 6-3 3-6 4-6 6-3 6-4

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Ladies' Singles
Maria Sharapova (2-Rus)             beat Olga Puchkova (Rus) 6-0, 6-0
Agnieszka Radwanska (4-Pol)      beat Bojana Bobusic 7-5, 6-0
Samantha Stosur (9-Aus)              beat Kai-Chen Chang 7-6(3), 6-3
Venus Williams (25-USA)           beat Galina Voskoboeva 6-1, 6-0
Li Na (6-Chn)                               beat Sesil Karatancheva 6-2, 6-3
Angelique Kerber (5-Ger)            beat Elina Svitolina 6-2, 6-4

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ATP World Tour Finals - Results Day 1

Two matches were played on the first day of the ATP World Tour Finals at London's O2 Arena and ended with much expected results.

Both matches were played in the Group A of the championship between Djokovic-Tsonga and Murray-Berdych.

In the first match of the day, after losing the first set 3-6, the US Open chmapion and world no.3 British andy Murray beat Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-4.

The second match was played between the world no.2 French Open champion Novak Djokovic from Serbia and 7th ranked French Jo-Wilfred Tsonga. The Serbian won the match despite tough resistance by the French in the first set 7-6(4) 6-3.

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The wins on Day-1 give two points each to Djokovic and Murray.

On Day-2, Federer - Tipsarevic will play their Group B in the men's singles category. 

In the men's double double category, recentl crowned Indian duo at Paris Bhupathi / Bopanna will play Marray / Nielsen, and the ATP PAris runners up Pakistan-Dutch duo Qureshi / Rojer will play against Paes / Stepanek Tuesday evening.

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Results US Open Day-1

The US Open 2012 that going on Monday 27th August, has had no real upsets and everyone that mattered sailed through to the second round.

The results of Day-1 are as under:

Men's Singles:

Olympic Gold medalist British Andy Murray (3) defeated Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6-2, 6-4, 6-1

Jack Sock defeated Florian Mayer (22) 6-3, 6-2, 3-2 (Mayer retired from the match)

James Blake defeated Lukas Lacko 7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3

Seven times Wimbledon title holder Swiss Roger Federer (1) defeated American Donald Young 6-3, 6-2, 6-4

Ladies' Singles:

Samantha Stosur (7) defeated Petra Martic 6-1, 6-1

Sorana Cirstea defeated Sabine Lisicki (16) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2

Kristyna Pliskova defeated Julia Goerges (18) 7-6 (7-4), 6-1

And finally Russian Maria Sharapova, who is seeking her second Grnad Slam of the YEar after French Open, beat Melinda Czink of Hungary 6-2, 6-2.

Team GB fail to pick up a medal on the opening day

It was just one of a number of disapointments suffered by Team GB on a day when none of their medal hopefuls were able to secure a place on the podium.

Mark Cavendish's girlfriend looked on with daughter Delilah as the cyclist suffered heartache on the roads [Photo: AFP/Getty Images]

As for tennis, it looked as if Murray brothers  were not playing for gold, but defeat still hurt for Andy and Jamie Murray as they lost on the grass of Wimbledon in the first round of the Olympic men's doubles.

In a very tight battle with Austria's Jurgen Melzer and Alexander Peya they went down 5-7, 7-6 (8/6), 7-5 after two hours and 23 minutes.

And then, much touted Mark Cavendish failed to challenge in the men's cycling road race and - along with teammates Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, David Millar and Ian Stannard - finished way out of contention.

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London OlLympics - Day 2 | Sunday Events

The first day of Olympics on Saturday, 28 July, followed by the night long proceedings of the opening ceremony,  saw China winning the first Gold Medal of the Olympics 2012, when China's Yi Siling won a goldin the women's 10m air rifle at the Royal Artillery Barracks. The 23-year-old world number one and title favourite beat Poland's Sylwia Bogacka into second, with Yu Dan of China taking bronze.

As of saturday, China, Kazakhstan and Republic of Korea have won one gold each, while Colombia, italy and Poland have won one silver each. Belgium, Brazil, Hungary, Norway, Serbia and Uzbekistan have won one bronze each.

As the Day 2 begins Sunday, more and more events get added to the schedule of the games at London.

In the men's footbal event, Great Britain take on the United Arab Emirate.

In the Finn Sailaing event, Ben Ainslie begins the defence of his Olympic title and may be get a gold too.

Almost all the major game event s are being played at different venues in and around London Sunday 29 July 2012. 

In the swimming final events, women's 100m butterfly final is being schedules, besides women's 400m Freestyle Final, Men's 100m Breaststroke Final and Men's 4x100m freestyle Relay Final.

Results: Wimbledon Day-1 Djokovic, Sharapova progress - Venus ousted

So the Wimbledon finally got going Monday today.

The first match on the Centre Court between defending champion world no.1 Serbian Djokovic and 

Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero has been completed with Djokovic winning the match in straight sets 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.

The second match on the Centre court between Roland Garros winner and world no.1 Russian Maria Sharapova and Australian Anastasia Rodionova ended in Sharapova's favour 6-2, 6-3.

On No.1 Court matche between world no.3 Swiss Roger Federer and Albert Ramos of Spain is in progress, with Federer in control 6-1,6-1, 2-0.

On No.1 Court, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic  beat Argentinian David Nalbandian 6-4 7-6(4) 6-2.

On No.2 Court, world no.3 Polish Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova 

6-3, 6-3.

And an upset of the day was defeat of American Venus Williams at the hand of Russian Elena Vesnina 6-1, 6-3. With this one of the Williams sisters is out of the tournament and let us see what Serena does in her match.

On No.3 Court, 5th ranked Australian Samantha Stosur defeated Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro 6-1, 

6-3.

On No. 12 Court, 11th ranked Chinese Na Li defeated kazakhistan's Ksenia Pervak 6-3, 6-1.

On No.17 Court, 18th ranked French Richard Gasquet defeated German Tobias Kamke 6-2, 6-2,6-2.