Tennis: Australian Open 2025

[Ben Grimm]

Coco Gauff crowed as world No 1, Emma Raducanu back into top 20 of the rankings

Emma Raducanu has exploded back into the top 20 of the alternative tennis rankings.

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[kihei]

Shapo started out great against Musetti with an early 3-love lead, but couldn't hold it for long. Musetti pretty much ran away with the subsequent breaker, so he is definitely in the driver seat.

Another breaker goes to Musetti, up two sets to love now. Shapo has 12 double faults and 46 unforced errors in 26 games. After that promising start in the first set, this is turning into a by now pretty much standard performance from Denis.

Third set and Shapo is in a snit. 14 unforced errors in four games. He's way too old for this nonsense.

 

[kihei]

Fritz has now won two matches with the combined loss of only eight games total. Brooksby and Garin, on this surface, constitute very easy early round draws, but Taylor sure looks like he is going to be a very tough out. Who knows? He's probably no worse than the fifth favourite (I'd listen to arguments for 4th) and he is in the easier half.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Fritz beats Garin 2, 1, 0 in 1:22. We'll see how far he can go, but I was marveling at Alcaraz doing the same yesterday in his second match and Fritz essentially matched him there. Not saying he'll be able to match Alcaraz or Sinner at the end of the tournament, but this is probably the best year or so stretch of his career.

 

[kihei]

Diallo lost in four tough sets to Khachanov whose steadiness and veteran smarts were the deciding factors, but Gabriel put up one hell of a fight. His future looks brighter than any Canadian right now.

 

[kihei]

Not as sharp as against Rublev and playing Sonego, an opponent less dependent on predictable patterns than Andrey, Fonseco still manages to get the first set to a breaker which he wins despite blowing a 6-3 lead.