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Tuesday 19 January 2010

Australian Open in brief

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—A look at Tuesday’s second day of the Australian Open:

WEATHER: Cloudy, then sunny but breezy with a high of 73 degrees.

ATTENDANCE: Day: 45,594 (record for any day session in tournament history); Night: 18,009; Total: 63,603.

WINNERS: Men: No. 1 Roger Federer, No. 3 Novak Djokovic, No. 6 Nikolay Davydenko, No. 9 Fernando Verdesco, No. 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, No. 12 Gael Monfils, No. 14 Marin Cilic, No. 17 David Ferrer, No. 18 Tommy Haas, No. 19 Stanislas Wawrinka, No. 20 Mikhail Youghny, No. 21 Tomas Berdych, No. 22 Lleyton Hewitt, No. 26 Nicolas Almagro, No. 27 Philipp Kohlschreiber, No. 29 Viktor Troika, No. 30 Juan Monaco, No. 31 Albert Montanes, No. 33 John Isner.

Women: No. 1 Serena Williams, No. 6 Venus Williams, No. 8 Jelena Jankovic, No. 10 Agnieszka Radwanska, No. 11 Marion Bartoli, No. 13 Sam Stosur, No. 17 Francesca Schiavone, No. 19 Nadia Petrova, No. 20 Ana Ivanovic, No. 21 Sabine Lisicki, No. 26 Aravane Rezai, No. 31 Alona Bondarenko, No. 32 Carla Suarez Navarro.

LOSERS: Men: No. 8 Robin Soderling, No. 16 Tommy Robredo, No. 23 Juan Carlos Ferrero, No. 25 Sam Querrey, No. 28 Jurgen Melzer.

Women: No. 18 Virginie Razzano, No. 23 Dominika Cibulkova, No. 25 Anabel Medina Garrigues.

STATS OF THE DAY: 70, number of Grand Slam singles matches played by France’s Fabrice Santoro spanning four decades; 4 hours, 19 minutes—WTA says the duration of Barbora Zahlavova Strycova’s first-round win over Regina Kulikova is a record for a women’s match at a Grand Slam.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I was very happy to come back one more time here. No regrets.”—Santoro, at the 70th, a 7-5, 7-5, 6-3 loss to Marin Cilic in his 18th appearance at Melbourne Park.

On Court Wednesday: No. 2 Rafael Nadal vs. Lukas Lacko; No. 7 Andy Roddick vs. Thomaz Bellucci. No. 3 Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, No. 5 Elena Dementieva vs. Justine Henin, No. 15 Kim Clijsters vs. Tamarine Tanasugarn.

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