AUSTRALIAN OPEN: NOVAK, ROGER THROUGH....via@sportsbywest3

DEFENDING champion of the men's singles of the Australian open, Serbian novak djokovic starts on a right track as he is looking for his 6th Australian open crown, with a convincing 6-3 6-2 6-4 victory over teenager chung hyeon, in less than 2 hours.

 

in rather hot conditions, Novak was seen reaching out for ice vests and water. the top seed is trying to match the record of most Australian open wins owned by Roy Emerson with 6. he smashed his opponent who is ranked 51 and Chung was only trying to respond to Novak's booming ground strokes.

Chung broke once in the opening set but that is never enough to beat a man as good as novak. djokovic broke him twice in the early set. there is a big career ahead for chung as he is only 19 years old.

Roger Federer, a 17 time grand slam winner started his 17th Australian open campaign with a convincing 6-2 6-1 6-2 demolition of Basilashvili in just one hour and 12 minutes.
with 31 winners, the swizz maintained his perfect record of always making it past the first round of the Australian open.
Federer's next opponent is Dolgopolov.

OTHER RESULTS:

6th seed Berdych scaled through to the next round via a 7-5 6-1 6-2 victory  over Bhambri.

7th seed Nishikori beat Kohlschreiber 6-4 6-3  6-3.

 Cilic beat Bakker 6-7 6-3 6-2 6-4


Frenchman, Gilles Simon made it to the next round by winning 6-7 6-3 6-2 6-4 against Pospisil.



BRIBING IN TENNIS?


SERBIAN AND WORLD NUMBER ONE, Novak has claimed he was indirectly approached to fix a match in 2006 and has denounced the practice as a crime in sport.

Novak instantly rejected the bribe and hsas insisted that he is unaware of any match fixing currently happening at the top level of tennis.

An investigation by BBC and buzzfeed alleges that over the last decade, a core group of players have repeatedly been brought to the attention of the sport's governing bodies over suspicions they have fixed matches.


via sportsbywest.