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 | Novak Djokovic continues his title defense16-01-2013 |
Novak Djokovic continues his title defense in the Australian Open. Djokovic overcame a in the second round the American Ryan Harrison with 6-1, 6-2, 6-3.
Nole is a champion at Melbourne in 2008, 2011 and 2012's, and hopes to be the first man in the history of Grand Slam, who won the title in three consecutive years. Nine other players have two consecutive in Australia since the 1968th.
In the next round, Djokovic's opponent will be Radek Stepanek, who beat Feliciano Lopez with 6-2, 6-2, 6-4.
All results of the day in men:
Jiri Yanovich (Poland) - Somdev Dev Varma (India) 6:7 3:6 6:1 6:0 7:5
KEI Nishikori (Japan) - Carlos Berlok (Argentina) 7:6 6:4 6:1
Nicolas Almagro (Spain) - Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spain) 6:4 6:1 6:2
Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) - Rufen Guillaume (France) 6:2 6:2 6:4
Juergen Melzer (Austria) - Roberto Bautista-agouti (Spain) 6:7 6:3 6:7 6:3 6:2
Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) - Tobias Kamko (Germany) 6:3 7:6 and reject of Kamko
David Ferrer (Spain) - Tim Shmizek (USA) 6:0 7:5 4:6 6:3
Sam Querrey (USA) - Brian Baker (USA) 6:7 1:1 and reject of Baker
Kevin Anderson (RSA) - Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) 6:1 7:5 6:4
Julien Benneteau (France) - Edward Roger-Vasselin (France) 4:6 7:5 7:6 7:6
Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) - Tatsuma Ito (Japan) 3:6 6:3 6:2 6:2
Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) - Lukas Latsko (Slovakia) 6:3 6:4 3:6 4:6 7:5
Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic) - Feliciano Lopez (Spain) 6:2 6:2 6:4
Fernando Verdasco (Spain) - Xavier Malisse (Belgium) 6:1 6:3 6:2
Novak Djokovic (Serbia) - Ryan Harrison (USA) 6:1 6:2 6:3