Who survived the First round at the Australian Open?

In an earlier post we covered who was competing at the Australian Open tennis after having played in the East Hotel Canberra Challenger tennis event last week. Here is a roundup of the results following round one action at Melbourne Park.

From 8-13 January Canberra hosted many of the world’s top 100 men’s tennis players as they fought it out for the East Hotel Canberra Challenger tennis title. This was an ATP Challenger event.

Italy’s Andreas Seppi was to emerge as champion after he defeated Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. Many of the competitors from the Canberra event are now down in Melbourne for the Australian Open. In this article, we look at who is competing in Melbourne after playing here in Canberra, and we look at who they have drawn in the men’s singles event.

Israel’s Dudi Sela plays a backhand in his round one match against France’s Hugo Grenier. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Dudi Sela lost to Ryan Harrison in a five set marathon. The score was 6-3, 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 in a match that lasted 3 hours and 39 minutes.

]Malik Jaziri from Tunisia against Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au.

Malik Jaziri from Tunisia defeated Italy’s Salvatore Caruso 6-7, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-3. Jaziri now faces the no. 23 seed Gilles Muller from Luxembourg. This will be a tough assignment for Jaziri.

Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics stretches wide to play a forehand slice. Fucsovics was serving at 4-5 down to Andreas Seppi. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Marton Fucsovics defeated Moldova’s Radu Albot 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 and advances to a matchup with Sam Querrey, the top-ranked American still left in the draw.

Mikhail Kukushkin from Kazakhstan hits a backhand against Australia’s Jeremy Beale in a round one singles match at the East Hotel Canberra Challenger. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Kazakhstan player, Mikhail Kukushkin lost to Germany’s Peter Gojowczyk 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.

Argentina’s Nicolas Kicker plays a backhand slice against France’s Elliot Benchetrit in their round one match at the East Hotel Canberra Challenger. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Argentina’s Nicolas Kicker defeated Australia’s Jordan Thompson 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3 to advance to round two where he will meet Lukas Lacko from Slovakia.

Chile’s Nicolas Jarry hitting a forehand to France’s Maxime Janvier in their round two match. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Chile’s Nicolas Jarry lost to Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer 6-2, 7-6, 6-3.

Singles round 1 – France’s Corentin Moutet ready to recieve serve against Nicolas Jarry from Chile https://twitter.com/NicoJarry. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au.

Italy’s Andreas Seppi defeated France’s Corentin Moutet 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.

Italy’s Andreas Seppi with his trophy for winning the East Hotel Canberra Challenger 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 over Marton Fucsovics. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Singles round 1 – Laslo Djere from Serbia hits a shot against France’s Maxime Janvier. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Laslo Djere from Serbia lost to Ivo Karlovic 7-6, 6-3, 7-6.

Germany’s Maximilian Marterer defeated fellow German Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 6-0, 6-3, 6-4.

Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez plays a backhand against Italy’s Andreas Seppi in a quarterfinal match at the ATP Challenger event in Canberra. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez defeated France’s Benoit Paire 6-0, 6-7, 6-1, 6-4.

Dominican Republic’s Victor Estrella Borgus seeded no. 5 plays a backhand in the second semifinal against the 7th seeded Andreas Seppi from Italy. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Victor Estrella Burgos lost to the number one seed, Rafael Nadal, to open the night session on day one. the score was 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.

Germany’s Florian Mayer, the number 2 seed, hits a backhand against Australia’s Ben Mitchell in their second round match. Photo by Rob Keating, http://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Germany’s Florian Mayer lost to Evgeny Donskoy from Russia 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

Alison Bai hits a backhand against Destanee Aiava in the women’s semifinal at the ITF Futures event in Canberra. (Photo by Rob Keating) Apis Canberra International

Canberra’s very own Nick Kyrgios defeated Brazil’s Rogerio Dutra Silva 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 Matt Ebden, the winner of the Canberra Challenger back in October 2017 eliminated the no. 16 seed John Isner 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 and will next face Alexander Dolgopolov.