2013 Australian Open Campaign

[Bulldog Force]

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Righteo, as usual, we have major tournaments taking place right across this great southern land of ours this Summer.

Let's kick thing off with the Hopman Cup.

Starting tomorrow at 10:30am, we'll have Spain taking on South Africa. Tomorrow evening from 6:00pm, we'll have us Aussies taking on the Germans.

Sunday will feature the USA taking on South Africa during the day, and Spain taking on neighbours France in the evening.

The television schedule for both days this weekend are as follows:

Channel 10 will be broadcasting the action from 1:00pm to 5:00pm, at 5:00pm One HD will take over, (sadly for only an hour), before returning to 10 at 8:30.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Well here's a low-blow early... Nadal is out of the Australian Open due to injury. That gives Novak an express pass to the final!

 

[Bulldog Force]

Brisbane International:

Dates

Women’s Qualifying 28–29 December 2012
Men’s Qualifying 29-30 December 2012
Main Draw 30 December 2012–6 January 2013

 

[BDR]

Terrific match between Tomic and Haas I hear. The young fella got through 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 7-5

Hopefully he has his head out of his arse and can make some amends this year.

 

[Hallatia]

I'm looking forward to seeing Andy Murray after final winning his first grand slam and getting that monkey off his back, it's time for him to redeem himself for his previous Australian Open finals appearances.

The news about Nadal sucks and should really affect his ranking, but if he returns for the clay season and win the Garros and other majors, he should claw a lot of the points back

 

[Bulldog Force]

Terrific match between Tomic and Haas I hear. The young fella got through 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 7-5

Hopefully he has his head out of his arse and can make some amends this year.

Australia complete a clean sweep defeating Germany 2-0, but, Andrea Petkovic was up a set again 16 year old Ashleigh Barty before injury struck and she was forced to retire. As a result of her injury, there was no need for a mixed doubles match. Now we look to Wednesday night when we face #1 ranked Serbia.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Just on Tomic, hats off to his never-say-die attitude. He was down in the first set tie-breaker 6-1, and Haas had 5 set points. Tomic dug deep and won the next 7 games straight to take out the tie-breaker (and the first set), which eventually played a big part in him winning the match.

Spain also were successful on day 1, defeating South Africa 2-1. Fernando Verdasco lost in his singles match (believe it or not), so he was lucky to get a chance to redeem himself in the mixed doubles.

 

[BDR]

Good stuff to get past Germany I didn't expect it to be honest.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Well I might as well post this one here. Little know Aussie Bobusic Bojana has qualified for the Brisbane international today. The 25 year old beat Czech Karolína Plí&#353;ková 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Oh no. Terrible news for Andrea... looks like her whole Aussie summer is over

https://twitter.com/andreapetkovic

Andrea Petkovic &#8207;@andreapetkovic
So it's a rupture of the meniscus, back to Germany as soon as possible for an arthroscopy. Relieved it wasn't the ACL again.

Andrea Petkovic &#8207;@andreapetkovic
On the to-do-list: 1.Cut my hair. Short. Very short. 2.Dye it pink or blonde 3.Hold Rafa's hand until we're both healthy again.

Andrea Petkovic &#8207;@andreapetkovic
Just kidding. I would never do that......the Rafa thing, I mean

Good to see it wasn't an ACL, however a torn meniscus isn't that much better. Also good to see she hasn't lost her sense of humor. Here's to hoping she'll be back on her feet soon. So sad. She's one of my favs

Looks like we won't be seeing the dance this January.

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[BDR]

The cute factor at the Aus Open just dropped significantly

 

[Bulldog Force]

The cute factor at the Aus Open just dropped significantly

Not quite mate, the big names haven't even made an appearance here yet ;-)

 

[Bulldog Force]

Sam Stosur and Maria Sharapova both eliminated from Brisbane.

Over in Perth, France are 1-0 up against USA while the womens match is underway.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Well Hewitt won in Brisbane, and I must say, that is a surprise.

Back over in Perth, Venus Williams won her match keeping the USA in the tie. Then she teamed up with Isner to win the mixed doubles. Great comeback by the Americans!

 

[Wizardman]

Hewitt will be better for the run...looked out of energy in that second set.

My tips are Serena and Novak for the big one. Im very keen to see hoe a guy named Jerzy Janowitz goes....he has a huge game.

 

[AusKnightRKO]

Tsonga for the Aus open for me. Would love for him too finally get 1

 

[Bulldog Force]

Anyone but Novak and FedEx for me. Would love to see one of our own, but I think we're still at least a decade away from anything happening there. Verdasco might be a good chance with Rafa out.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Novak vs Tomic, Dellacqua vs Ivanovic, and then mixed doubles. I'm predicting a Serbian white-wash.

 

[AusKnightRKO]

Id love to see Hewitt roll back the clock for one last Grand Slam

 

[Bulldog Force]

Id love to see Hewitt roll back the clock for one last Grand Slam

His time past several years ago mate. His best chance was against Safin a few years ago and he blew it.