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Djokovic soared when he most needed to last night, holding off Fernando Verdasco in a 71-minute, momentum-swinging second set before winning 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-2. There were glares, stares and frustrated outbursts from players who met in a tense semifinal earlier this month in Doha, where Djokovic saved five match points to win.
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Another six-time champion had a tough first round, with Serena Williams needing to produce some of her best tennis to get far enough ahead against Belinda Bencic that a late lapse wasn’t a real worry.
And after starting her quest for a record 23rd grand slam title with a 6-4, 6-3 first-round win, Williams walked into her news conference wearing a black shirt with the word “Equality” printed across the front.
It was still before midnight on Monday in the United States, where the holiday in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was nearly ending.
“With today being Martin Luther King Day, it’s important to spread the message of equality,” Williams said. “Something he talked about a lot and he tried to spread a lot, is equality and rights for everyone.”
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Nadal, also on the comeback from a couple of months on the sidelines following the US Open with an injured left wrist, had a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win over Florian Mayer to go one better than he did last year in Australia.
“I’m happy to do an interview with you — last year, I didn’t have the chance!” Nadal said in his on-court interview.
In a 5-hour Nike VaporMax Country Pack Mens , 15-minute encounter on Court 19, 37-year-old Ivo Karlovic held off Horacio Zeballos of Argentina 6-7 (6), 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 22-20 in a match that set a record for most number of games (84) at the Australian Open in the tiebreak era. Karlovic also finished with a tournament-record 75 aces.
On a day when the temperature reached almost 38 degrees Celsius, third-seeded Milos Raonic, who reached the semifinals in Australia last year, beat Dustin Brown 6-3 Cheap Nike VaporMax Laceless Mens , 6-4, 6-2 and No. 11 David Goffin outlasted 19-year-old qualifier Reilly Opelka 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
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The women who won the titles in warmup tournaments in Brisbane and Sydney advanced in straight sets.
US Open finalist Karolina Pliskova, the Brisbane winner, had a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Sara Sorribes Tormo. Sydney champion Johanna Konta, a surprise semifinalist in her debut at the Australian Open last year, beat Kirsten Flipkens 7-5, 6-2.
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Heather Watson extended the 2011 US Open winner Sam Stosur’s drought at her home grand slam, winning 6-3, 3-6, 6-0.
The New Dark Ages
Posted by nick_niesen on October 27th, 2010
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It is a sad mockery of the idea of progress. The more texts we make available online, the more research is published, the more books are written - the less educated people are, the more they rely on visuals and sounds rather than the written word, the more they seek to escape and be anesthetized rather than be challenged and provoked.
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