Australian Open Day 4

Victoria Azarenka (Blr) [1] beat Eleni Daniilidou (Gre) 6-1 6-0

The Reigning Champion Victoria Azarenka produced an impressive display against former world #14 Eleni Daniilidou to reach the 3rd round, Azarenka started well with a love service game before breaking her opponent, Daniilidou was opting for the backhand slice at every chance she got but Vika was returning them with conviction and making Daniilidou work hard around the court for every ball, Vika looked in focus as she powered through every shot finding the line perfectly on many occasions in the first set, Daniilidou who previously had a win at Wimbledon over Justine Henin to her name almost a decade ago looks a totally different player these days and Vika exposed her Greek opponents flaws well, setting up match points at 5-1 and taking them to win a easy first set, Daniilidou in the second set just like in the first was having terrible service games hitting double faults and nailing weak 2nd serves to let Vika in and attack them, Vika soon raced through the second set following the same pattern as the first with massive forehands across court that Daniilidou had no answer to, the only time Vika looked unfocused in the whole match was when Daniilidou was getting her ball toss all wrong and taking an age on her service game a couple of times, but Vika made her pay for that in the second set with a bagel to easily seal the match.

 

Serena Williams (US) [3] beat Garbine Muguruza (Spa) 6-2 6-0

The Tournament favorite Serena Williams who took a nasty fall on her ankle in the first round looked like she has fully recovered as her movement looked normal and she sealed a routine victory against the Unseeded Spaniard Muguruza, it took a while for Williams to settle into the match after a few shakey games she was soon into her stride and raced away but it wasn't all plain sailing for her in some regards as she stretched for a Muguruza forehand she caught herself in the mouth with her own racket and looked clearly in pain, holding her mouth and checking for blood but she carried on and didn't make a huge fuss out of it to her credit and took the first set 6-2,Muguruza at times looked good on the forehand she powered a few close to the line to win points and her serve at times in the match looked impressive but there was not enough consistently from her to give Serena any troubles and Serena got herself a Bagel in the second to book herself a place in the 3rd round

Bernard Tomic (Aus) beat Daniel Brands (Ger) 6-7 (4-7) 7-5 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (10-8)

One of the most entertaining games of the tournament so far, Tomic who has been given high hopes by the Media of being a possible winner of the tournament after a good start to the near was against another man who was going through a good run of form from his run back in Doha a couple of weeks ago, Brands took the first set in a tie break after an impressive serving performance but Tomic who looked up for the fight leveled things up in the second at the most important time, in the third set it was Tomic's time to win the tie break to take the lead in sets for the first time in the match, the final set both players continued to serve and hold well but it was Tomic who seemed to be coming out on top in most of the rallies they were having with a better variety of shot making then his opponent, Tomic couldn't take 2 match points before the tie break and in the tie break he had 3 at 6-3 that he didn't take as Brands battled back but Tomic just about did enough in the end as he won another match point as 9-8 and took it well to give the Australian crowd something to cheer about after Stosur's disappointing exit the day before 

Laura Robson (GB) beat Petra Kvitova (Cze) [8] 2-6 6-3 11-9

It wasn't the best match to watch and it wasn't pretty at all but it was the most nervous and enthralling match of the tournament so far, Robson couldn't have asked for a worst start as she double faulted twice a trait in her game that she had been trying to get rid of in recent months but it seemed to be haunting her again and Kvitova broke straight away and the second set sun ran away from Robson as Kvitova was hitting more winners and Robson didn't look settled at all, the second set Kvitova starting making much more errors on serve and gifting points to Robson, a break came and Robson took it and closed out the set to level things at 1-1, in the third set, the match was lacking any good rallies and both players were looking to hit hard all the time and making errors and the double fault count began to rise, Laura's shot making seemed to improve a little in the deciding set as Kvitova's body language was looking bleaker and bleaker by the minute with every error she hit, it was only when the match was leveled up at 6-6 that both players went up a gear on serve but still couldn't stop the endless supply of Double faults and Errors that stopped the game having any real flow about it, Robson who had to serve to stay in the match a few times looked composed and didn't crumble under the pressure, Robson broke to make it 10-9 after a great return on a weak kvitova serve and she sealed arguably the biggest win in her career when she served, it started well with an Ace and then Kvitova found the net and went long to give Robson 3 match points but she only needed the 1 as Kvitova went long again to give Robson the match after 3 hours, It was unbelievable just how many errors were made in the game and it was down to who could keep their nerve more and try and limit the errors in the end  , Kvitova couldn't really find any sort of consistently on serve but Laura improved and stepped it up well in the 3rd set against a visibly upset Petra Kvitova, Robson now joins fellow Brits Andy Murray and Heather Watson in the third round and the first time since the 1980's that Great Britain has had 3 players in the 3rd round of a Grand Slam. 

Andy Murray (GB) [3] beat Joao Sousa (Por) 6-2 6-2 6-4

Andy Murray gave another good account of himself with a straight set win over Portuguese Joao Sousa, Murray used his cross court play well and sealed out every set with no problems from his unseeded opponent, Murray played with confidence and looked like he was in a rush to get the match over with as the 3rd seed wrapped up the first set in no time at all, Murray looked great on serve and didn't give opponent many chances to break at all as he powered himself over the finishing line in just 1 hour and 41 minutes to set up a clash with his good friend Ricardas Berankis in the 3rd Round 

Roger Federer (Swi) [2] beat Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) 6-3 6-4 6-4

Federer who was showing off some of his new Pink footwear started well against the tricky Davydenko winning the long rallies and coming out on top in the important points and sliding across the court to reach balls a lot more then usual in a Djokovic type of style, Federer was his usual focused self all through the match and in the end his court position and his quality shot making was to much for Davydenko to get to grips with as Federer came through in straight sets and will now face Australia's very own Bernard Tomic in the next round 

Men's Second Round Scores: Day 4

Roger Federer (2) defeated Nikolay Davydenko; 6-3, 6-4, 6-4

Andy Murray (3) defeated Joao Sousa; 6-2, 6-2, 6-4

Juan Martin Del Potro (6) defeated Benjamin Becker; 6-2, 6-4, 6-2

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (7) defeated Go Soeda; 6-3, 7-6 (7-1), 6-3

Richard Gasquet (9) defeated Alejandro Falla; 6-3, 6-2, 6-2

Marin Cilic (12) defeated Rajeev Ram; 7-5, 6-2, 6-4

Milos Raonic (13) defeated Lukas Rosol; 7-6 (7-2), 6-2, 6-3

Gilles Simon (14) defeated Jesse Levine; 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2

Philipp Kohlschreiber (17) defeated Amir Weintraub; 6-2, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4

Andreas Seppi (21) defeated Denis Istomin; 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (7-3), 6-2

Ricardas Berankis defeated Florian Mayer (25); 6-2, 6-3, 6-1

Jeremy Chardy defeated Marcel Granollers (30); 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2

Gael Monfils defeated Yen-Hsun Lu; 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 0-6, 6-1, 8-6

Blaz Kavcic defeated James Duckworth; 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 10-8

Ivan Dodig defeated Jarkko Nieminen; 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-1

Bernard Tomic defeated Daniel Brands; 6-7 (4-7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (10-8)

Women's Second Round Scores: Day 4

Victoria Azarenka (1) defeated Eleni Daniilidou; 6-1, 6-0

Serena Williams (3) defeated Garbine Muguruza; 6-2, 6-0

Laura Robson defeated Petra Kvitova (8); 2-6, 6-3, 11-9

Caroline Wozniacki (10) defeated Donna Vekic; 6-1, 6-4

Maria Kirilenko (14) defeated Shuai Peng; 7-5, 6-2

Roberta Vinci (16) defeated Akgul Amanmuradova; 6-3, 6-2

Bojana Jovanovski defeated Lucie Safarova (17); 7-5, 7-5

Yanina Wickmayer (20) defeated Jana Cepelova; 7-6 (10-8), 7-5

Elena Vesnina defeated Varvara Lepchenko (21); 6-4, 6-2

Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Su-Wei Hsieh (26); 6-2, 6-1

Sloane Stephens (29) defeated Kristina Mladenovic; 6-4, 6-3

Jamie Hampton defeated Luksika Kumkhum; 6-1, 6-2

Lesia Tsurenko defeated Daria Gavrilova; 7-5, 6-3

Carla Suarez Navarro defeated Yulia Putintseva; 1-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2

Ayumi Morita defeated Annika Beck; 6-2, 6-0

Kimiko Date-Krumm defeated Shahar Peer; 6-2, 7-5