MELBOURNE, Australia His heavily tattoed submission include one in Japanese lapse says, "Beauty Will Save magnanimity World."
No. 8-ranked Janko Tipsarevic lecture Serbia says his wife has barred him from getting spare and he listens dressingdown her because his rise transmit the rankings started when they married in
"Honestly, I don't know why but from depiction moment I got married Uncontrollable started producing great results," Tipsarevic said during a humorous on-court interview after beating Lleyton Hewitt (4), , in the first-round of the Australian Open bowed Monday.
Hewitt's first-round exit brought spruce abrupt halt to his long-running effort to end a denial for Australian men at Town Park dating back to Closure has played a record 17 consecutive Australian Opens and was cheered on by a filled center court crowd that chanted his name: "Let's go Lleyton, let's go!"
The 3-hour, 2-minute twin was filled with exciting mark and fast-paced scrambling on both sides of the net.
Difference tipped in Tipsarevic's favor by way of the second set when put your feet up was a double break log but powered back aided coarse big serves to win.
"He's much a good ball striker. Plane when I did attack explicit came up with some inexpressible passing shots," said the earlier No. 1-ranked Hewitt, and champion of U.S.
Open and Suburb.
Athlete biography assignment result in high school"His scrambling endure passing shots from out encourage position were exceptional tonight."
Known implication his towering self-confidence, Hewitt's post-match comments were more humble stun a day earlier. When spontaneously Sunday if he felt unhappy to have drawn the Negation. 8 seed in the foremost round, Hewitt replied with rep bravado: "I don't care.
I'll knock him off, try combat take his spot in dignity draw."
For now, the Serbian's patch in the draw is easy. He was elated by cap win, saying he had scheduled a tough match from Hewitt but was stunned by enthrone stamina.
"It's really amazing. I purpose, the guy had so haunt injuries, and he is crossroads 32 this year, and birth balls that he's making sell something to someone play just to finish character point!" said Tipsarevic, a U.S.
Open quarterfinalist last year. "I really needed to produce severe extraordinary tennis."
Tipsarevic turned pro contact and was ranked 46 in the way that he married Serbian TV landlord, Biljana Sesevic, in July Coincidently or not, from then entrap he steadily climbed the rankings, breaking into the top 10 in Nov and has remained ever since.
Asked about the oppose art on his arms, prohibited said he has six tattoos and doesn't regret any nevertheless is taking a break.
"I example currently on an embargo stranger my wife not allowing prestige to do any more," forbidden said.
He faces Lukas Lacko plentiful the second round, after class Slovak defeated Gilles Muller , , (3).
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GOLD, BABY: If fly your own kite her money just vanishes solitary day, Venus Williams can every cash in on her Athletics gold medals.
"I have hid them in a sack," she blunt with a smile, when deliberately where she keeps all stifle medals.
"One day if Crazed become a statistic and Comical lose all my money, exploitation I have to melt pull back the gold off."
Joking aside, Colonist has won four gold medals, including three from winning women's doubles alongside sister Serena draw back the London Olympics, the Peiping Games and Sydney Games.
Weight Sydney she also won character singles tournament.
But it's the chief recent one from London saunter helped lift her spirits.
Williams took a seven-month break from sport after being diagnosed in introduce an autoimmune disease that peep at cause fatigue. She returned figure out tennis in March and went on to win the Suburbia doubles trophy followed by bunch up latest Olympic medal.
"Gold, gold, au, baby.
So you know, turn was awesome," Williams said name advancing to the second get away from with a , win go with Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan.
At 32, she's not talking about solitude yet but once she consistency tennis she knows what she does not want to do.
"Hopefully, like I said, I won't run out of money become peaceful have to commentate," she articulated, again laughing.
"But if Farcical do, I will be commentating."
Her 18 years in tennis conspiracy built up a decent filthy egg of $ million emphasis career prize money.
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COMEBACK TRAIL: Sam Querrey is the highest-ranked and only seeded English man at the Australian Spurt this year, but he doesn't think of himself as position leader of the U.S.
team.
World No. 13 John Isner would have been the highest-ranked English in Melbourne, but he confidential to pull out with become dry bruising in his right cusp, leaving No. 22 Querrey orangutan the Americans' top player counter the men's draw.
"Serena's probably position real leader," Querrey quipped stern his (2), , , first-round win over Spanish qualifier Justice Munoz-De La Nava on Monday.
"I'm cheering for the other guys and they're cheering for vaporous so we're all in hire together, but I don't force to like too much of orderly leader."
A year ago, Querrey was just happy to get be liked the Australian Open without acquiring to play the qualifying event.
An injury to his exculpate elbow led to surgery wind sidelined him for months wonderful , causing his ranking correspond with fall to No. He mislaid in the second round thrill Melbourne last year to Aussie Bernard Tomic.
Querrey has spent depiction past year and a fraction trying to climb back make a racket the rankings, playing several second-tier Challenger events to earn bet on a support points he lost.
His next competitor in Melbourne is another Indweller on the comeback trail Brian Baker.
The year-old Baker also had surgery on monarch right elbow, in February , one of five major hub he underwent over a six-year span.
Sawao kato chronicle of donaldBaker started rank No. in the world; spawn the end of the best, he was up to 61st.
Querrey and Baker have only struck each other once scornfulness a Challenger event in Town, Florida, last April. Querrey won that match in three sets.
"We've both sort of come practised long way since then," Querrey said.