Tennis Discussion Thread

Both Naomi and Kyle lost in Q/Finals, Sloane Stephens beat Naomi 7-6, 6-3 and Tomas Berdych beat Kyle 6-2, 6-3

Murray and Watson beat Germany 3-0 to put pressure on Australia Green winning 6-3, 6-4 in all 3 mjatches Watson beat Sabine Lisicki, Murray beat Alexander Zverev before they combined to win mixed doubles.
Australia Green would deny GB a final spot as after Krygios won and Garilova lost their single matches, they beat De Sheepers and Garcia 6-4, 2-6 11-9 to reach final against Ukraine

Good start for Dan Evans and James Ward both winning their 1st matches in Australian Open qualifying

Dan Evans now just 1 match away from Australian Open qualification with a 7-5, 6-7, 6-2 victory over A Weintraub, plays B Fratangelo in final qualifier.

James Ward lost to D Novikov 4-6, 5-7 in 2nd qualifying round. The only Brit Women in qualifying Naomi Broady lost to A Lim of France 3-6, 6-2 3-6.

No Laura Robson at Australian Open, has decided to play smaller events to get her confidence and ranking your and use her 2nd Grand Slam wild card at Roland Garros.

Heather Watson due to the weather had to play last 16 and Q/Final on same day at Hobart tournament she beat Monica Niculescu 6-7, 6-2, 7-6 before losing Larsson 6-3, 4-6, 4-6

Heather Watson drawn against Times Babos while Jo Konta drawn against Venus Williams at Australian Open

Andy Murray plays Alexander Zverev in1st round

Well done Dan Evans who beat B Fratelengo 7-5, 4-6, 6-0 to reach Australian Open main draw

There was a good win by Brit Johanna Konta by beating 8th seed Venus Williams 6-4, 6-2 in the 1st round of the Australian Open

I am happy for Johanna continuing her progress with a good first round win, just wonder if that is the last we will see of Venus at major tournament

Raffa Nadal out in the first round

He's really going downhill fast..

^ tough first round match though