The Latest: Top-seeded Halep beats Bouchard in Melbourne
Top-seeded Simona Halep traveled to a 6-2, 6-2 prevail upon Eugenie Bouchard to progress to the third round of the Australian Open.
With temperatures down a couple of degrees from the torrid 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) prior in the day, Halep helped increase some reprisal from the last — and just — time the combine met in a Grand Slam competition.
At Wimbledon in 2014, the Canadian beat Halep in the elimination rounds before progressing to the last, where she lost to Petra Kvitova.
Her solid run early that year — elimination rounds at the Australian and French Opens previously Wimbledon — pushed Bouchard to No. 5 in the rankings. She has since had a noteworthy slide and is currently positioned 112th.
6:50 p.m.
Trump card section Julien Benneteau has had a disturbed 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-1, 7-6 (4) triumph over seventh-seeded David Goffin, winning the last five focuses in the sudden death round in a third-round match.
It was just the second time in the now 59th-positioned Benneteau's vocation — in 19 endeavors — that he's figured out how to beat a player in the main 10 out of a Grand Slam singles coordinate.
6 p.m.
Six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic conquered a poor begin — dropping his initial two administration recreations — to proceed with his vocation long mastery of Gael Monfils.
Djokovic beat the Frenchman for the fifteenth back to back time — 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 in temperatures that achieved 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
Monfils should have been checked by a competition specialist on Rod Laver Arena in the second set when the torrid conditions left him seeming woozy now and again.
Djokovic required four match focuses in the last amusement which extended more than eight minutes.
5:35 p.m.
Madison Keys won the initial 11 amusements and beat Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-0, 6-1 of every a 41-minute third-round match at the Australian Open.
The seventeenth seeded Keys was prevailing serving in the main set. She served five aces in six endeavors to open the match — four in the main amusement and another on the second purpose of her next administration diversion.
She won each point on her serve in the primary set, holding at affection in three diversions.
4:30 p.m.
Previous champion Angelique Kerber commended her 30th birthday celebration with a 6-4, 6-1 prevail upon Donna Vekic to progress to the third round of the Australian Open and a match against Maria Sharapova.
It was Kerber's eleventh win in succession to begin the season.
Kerber, the 2016 champion at Melbourne Park, won four singles matches at the Hopman Cup and five progressively while winning a week ago's Sydney International. She beat kindred German Anna-Lena Friedsam in the first round here.
3:10 p.m.
Dominic Thiem has survived his first vocation five-set match at the Australian Open, encouraging from two sets down to crush 190th-positioned American qualifier Denis Kudla 6-7 (6), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in the second round.
The fifth-seeded Austrian player enhanced his five-set record at Grand Slams to 3-3 with the win. He lost both five-setters he played a year ago at the majors to Tomas Berdych at Wimbledon and to Juan Martin del Potro at the U.S. Open.
Thiem considered 21 experts as a part of his 57 champs in the match. He was softened three times up the opening set and once in the second set, at that point didn't confront another break point for whatever remains of the match.
2:55 p.m.
Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza is out of the Australian Open in the wake of being beaten 7-6 (1), 6-4 by Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan in the second round.
Muguruza never looked agreeable in the match, twofold blaming on soften point up the second set and had 43 unforced blunders.
She spared one match point in the ninth diversion on her serve before Hsieh served out the match in the following, securing it with a triumphant strike to the corner.
The Spaniard had a grieved readiness for the competition, resigning with issues in the second round at the Brisbane International and pulled back before her quarterfinal at Sydney as a result of correct thigh damage.
1:55 p.m.
American Sam Querrey is out of the Australian Open in the wake of losing his second-round match 6-4, 7 (6), 4-6, 6-2 to 80th-positioned Marton Fucsovics of Hungary.
The thirteenth seeded Querrey was one of 10 American players — men and ladies — to achieve the second round from the 32 who began the primary draws, the most minimal number of Americans through to the second round in Melbourne since seven out of 2011.
12:15 p.m.
Previous Australian Open semifinalist Johanna Konta has been thumped out of the competition in the second round by American fortunate failure Bernarda Pera 6-4, 7-5.
Pera, positioned No. 123, lost in the last round of qualifying and didn't get into the primary draw until Monday, when Russia's Margarita Gasparyan pulled back with damage. The 23-year-old Pera is influencing her Grand Slam to make a big appearance.
Konta spared three match focuses in the ninth round of the second set, at that point broke Pera to level the set at 5-all. The American at long last finished off the match on her fifth match point.
Pera was conceived in Croatia and moved to the U.S. when she was 16, choosing to speak to the U.S. She is one of just four American ladies to achieve the second round — the least number since 2011.
Konta finished keep going season on a four-coordinate losing streak, including a first-round misfortune at the U.S. Open, while managing foot damage. She at that point resigned from a match at the season-opening Brisbane International with hip damage.
12:35 p.m.
Maria Sharapova has progressed to the third round, beating Anastasija Sevastova 6-1, 7-6 (4) as the temperatures started to ascend at Melbourne Park.
With a figure high of 39 Celsius (102 Fahrenheit), Sharapova seemed, by all accounts, to be in a rush to get off the Rod Laver Arena court, winning the principal set in 23 minutes.
In the second set, Sharapova was broken while serving for the match, sending it to the sudden death round which she commanded.
Sharapova is playing here out of the blue since serving a 15-month doping boycott for testing positive for meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open. She lost to Sevastova at the U.S. Open last September in her arrival to Grand Slam tennis.
11:05 a.m.
Maria Sharapova was set to go up against Anastasija Sevastova toward the begin of play Thursday on a normal day of burning temperatures at the Australian Open.
The conjecture was for temperatures moving toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), and postponements were likely on side courts if the competition conjures its Extreme Heat Policy. Authorities likewise have the alternative of shutting the rooftops on the three show courts, including Rod Laver Arena.
Sharapova is playing here out of the blue since serving a 15-month doping boycott in the wake of testing positive for meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.
Wimbledon victor Garbine Muguruza, protecting champion Roger Federer and six-time Australian champ Novak Djokovic were additionally planned to play their second-round matches Thursday.