Djokovic, Sharapova in top form at Aussie Open
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January 17, 2013, Thursday
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NOVAK Djokovic was all but perfect in his second-round match yesterday against Ryan Harrison, beating the 20-year-old American 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 to stay on track for his third consecutive Australian Open title and the fourth of his career.
Maria Sharapova was even more convincing a few hours earlier, winning 6-0, 6-0 for the second time in two matches to set up a third-round encounter with Venus Williams.
Venus beat Alize Cornet 6-3, 6-3.
Reigning French Open champion Sharapova holds a 4-3 edge in career meetings, but Venus has won both of their meetings at grand slams - at Wimbledon in 2005 and 2007.
Djokovic, a loser in the US Open final last year to Andy Murray, looks seriously like he wants to atone for that defeat. He was relentless in beating Harrison, winning the first set in just 20 minutes and the match in 1-1/2 hours while making just 16 unforced errors.
Sharapova beat Japan's Misaki Doi by the double-bagel score in just 47 minutes, her second consecutive match at Melbourne Park in which her opponent failed to win a game. Doi won only 15 points. The Russian second seed is the first woman to post consecutive 6-0, 6-0 scorelines in a grand slam tournament since Wendy Turnbull at the Australian Open in 1985.
Earlier, fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanksa extended the year's best winning streak to 11 matches. She eased into the third round with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu and remains unbeaten this year, including titles at warm-up tournaments this month at Auckland and Sydney.
In other women's second-round matches, it was: No. 11 Marion Bartoli beat Serbian qualifier Vesna Dolonc 7-5, 6-0; No. 18 Julia Gorges beat Romina Oprandi 6-3, 6-2; No. 22 Jelena Jankovic, a former world No. 1, beat qualifier Maria Joao Koehler 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2; and 17-year-old American wildcard Madison Keys beat No. 30 Tamira Paszek of Austria 6-2, 6-1.
On the men's side, No. 4-ranked David Ferrer needed five match points before clinching a 6-0, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win over American Tim Smyczek, who got into the main draw as a lucky loser from qualifying. Fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych beat Guillaume Rufin of France 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 and eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic beat Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 7-5 in a match that lasted nearly four hours.
Maria Sharapova was even more convincing a few hours earlier, winning 6-0, 6-0 for the second time in two matches to set up a third-round encounter with Venus Williams.
Venus beat Alize Cornet 6-3, 6-3.
Reigning French Open champion Sharapova holds a 4-3 edge in career meetings, but Venus has won both of their meetings at grand slams - at Wimbledon in 2005 and 2007.
Djokovic, a loser in the US Open final last year to Andy Murray, looks seriously like he wants to atone for that defeat. He was relentless in beating Harrison, winning the first set in just 20 minutes and the match in 1-1/2 hours while making just 16 unforced errors.
Sharapova beat Japan's Misaki Doi by the double-bagel score in just 47 minutes, her second consecutive match at Melbourne Park in which her opponent failed to win a game. Doi won only 15 points. The Russian second seed is the first woman to post consecutive 6-0, 6-0 scorelines in a grand slam tournament since Wendy Turnbull at the Australian Open in 1985.
Earlier, fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanksa extended the year's best winning streak to 11 matches. She eased into the third round with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu and remains unbeaten this year, including titles at warm-up tournaments this month at Auckland and Sydney.
In other women's second-round matches, it was: No. 11 Marion Bartoli beat Serbian qualifier Vesna Dolonc 7-5, 6-0; No. 18 Julia Gorges beat Romina Oprandi 6-3, 6-2; No. 22 Jelena Jankovic, a former world No. 1, beat qualifier Maria Joao Koehler 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2; and 17-year-old American wildcard Madison Keys beat No. 30 Tamira Paszek of Austria 6-2, 6-1.
On the men's side, No. 4-ranked David Ferrer needed five match points before clinching a 6-0, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win over American Tim Smyczek, who got into the main draw as a lucky loser from qualifying. Fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych beat Guillaume Rufin of France 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 and eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic beat Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 7-5 in a match that lasted nearly four hours.
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