Monday 15 January 2018

Venus and Coco follow the Sloane exit

On court eight Pablo Carreno Busta (10) took the first set off Aussie wildcard Jason Kubler, ranked 334.  

It was close, 7-5, but set two was a surprise, Kubler actually levelling the match with a 6-4 set win.

Belinda Bencic was a break up on Venus Williams 4-3 with serve to come in the first set.

Jelena Ostapenko has defeated Francesca in straight sets.

Other winners include:

Julia Goerges over Sofia Kenin

Magdaléna Rybáriková over Taylor Townsend

Ying-Ying Duan over Mariana Duque-Marino

Mona Barthel over Monica Niculescu

Alize Cornet over Xinyu Wang

Alexandr Dolgopolov over Andreas Haider-Maurer

Petra Martic over Alison Van Uytvanck

After a short rain break, Kubler held serve to lead 2-1 in the third set and took Carreno Busta to deuce.

Two clean winners brought up break point for the Aussie and he took the chance for a 3-1 lead.

The tenth seed was showing frustration, but a double fault left Kubler at 30-30. A lovely Australian backhand and a Spanish error saw the scoreboard tick over to 4-1.

Meanwhile Bencic took the first set from Venus Williams 6-3.

And Dominika Cibulkova (24) lost her opening set to Kaia Kanepi 6-2.

Pablo held serve and Kubler’s lead was cut to 4-2 - serious pressure was put on the Queenslander’s serve, Pablo using the second of two break chances to bring the set back to 3-4 with Spanish delivery next.

Having drawn level, Pablo failed to seize on a double fault from Kubler and the Aussie led 5-4, and teasingly just a game away from a two sets to one lead.

An ace from the Spaniard silenced a previous point from Kubler full of great shots.

A wicked Queensland backhand took it to deuce.

Pablo closed it out with big serves and 5-5.

After saving a few break points, Kubler fell to the Pablo pressure and trailed 5-6. The tenth seed would serve for the set.

The set was taken with an easy hold and Pablo led 7-5 4-6 7-5.

Kirsten Flipkens has defeated Alison Riske 

Irina-Camelia Begu has defeated Ekaterina Makarova (31) 8-6 in the third

Pablo Cuevas (31) has defeated Mikhail Youzhny 

Denis Istomin (who tossed out Djokovic last year) has defeated Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

Kaia Kanepi has thrashed Dominika Cibulkova 6-2 6-2

Pablo Carreno Busta has taken complete control of his match with Jason Kubler, now leading 3-0 in the fourth set.

Coco Vandeweghe (10) has lost her first set in a shock against Timea Babos, so not the best start for American women.

Well it took Belinda to break the Williams serve to win 6-3 7-5, the only sets she has ever taken off the 2017 finalist.

Sloane Stephens (13) and Venus Williams (5) and Coco Vandeweghe (10) gone on Day One.

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