AUSTRALIAN OPEN DAY 4 The day of Marathon matches | Venus Williams defeated

It really was a day of Marathon matches. Some had easy winners struggle to go through and some had eliminations of Favorites. The most classy one among them was the one in which last year runner us Jo-Wilfried Tsonga got past Ivan Ljubicic in a nail biting 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (9-7), 6-2 scoreline.

It really was a electrifying match seeing some brilliant shots by both the players and some top class rallies. It was just a thing called Victory which separated Tsonga and Ljubucic.

In the womens draw a Major upset came with the defeat of Venus Williams, the Wimbledon Champion as she was defeated by the well know Gian killing Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, Venus wasted a match point before giving it up to Navarro. This is the biggest uoset of the 09 edition of the Australian open.

“I tried to think positive and say, ‘okay, I keep going, keep going all the time’,” Tsonga said.

“Today I was a little bit lucky.” “Tonight my back was very stiff but I won. I’m happy with that. I know I can play with (it).” added Tsonga

In another encounter Ivo Karlovic, the 25th seed defeated Mario Ancic in 7-5, 5-7, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6 scoreline.

Jurgen Melzer, defeated Andreas Beck, 5-7, 7-6 (9-7), 6-4, 6-3 while Radek Stepanek,defeated Michael Berrer, , 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (3-7), 7-5.

It was rather a easy outing for the top seeds as Rafael Nadal marched past Roko Karanusic 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, while Andy Murray the British favorite defeated Marcel Granollers-Pujol, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.

In the womens draw a Major upset came with the defeat of Venus Williams, the Wimbledon Champion as she was defeated by the well know Gian killing Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, Venus wasted a match point before giving it up to Navarro. This is the biggest uoset of the 09 edition of the Australian open.

Usually the aggressor with her powerful shots, sixth-seeded Williams was sluggish as she was broken while serving for the match and dropped the last five games with the crowd cheering loudly for Suarez to finish off the victory.




“She was super consistent and aggressive and just went for her shots,” said Williams. While her sister and three time Champion Serena Williams went through to the next round with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Argentina’s Gisela Dulko.

“Lots and lots and lots of room for improvement,” second-seeded Serena Williams said. “But it’s good that I was able to win, too, when I wasn’t playing my best.”