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Strycova famously gave Elina Svitolina some weird skin-on-skin action in while Putintseva has some form in the matter too. Ok, Strycova should learn Ostapenko how to do a real handshake!

Blink and you will miss the "handshake". Fresh from claiming the Sydney International title, which required him to win his semi-final and final on the same day, the Australian year-old overcame his opponent in a tick under three hours.

I thought I had to be really tough today and to back it up from Sydney. His reward is a return on Wednesday to play Mirza Basic or Henri Laaksonen for a likely third-round shootout with the great Rafael Nadal.

Maria Sakkari gave her Greek fans plenty to cheer about when she shocked the 22nd seeded Jelena Ostapenko in three sets.

The unseeded year-old Sakkari defeated the French Open champion in one hour and 49 minutes. Sakkari was supported by a hoard of vocal supporters, who made their way to Melbourne Arena after watching fellow Greek star Stefanos Tsitsipas book his place in the second round earlier in the day.

The Maria Sakkari fan club have arrived Amazing scenes. After witnessing Tsitsipas clinch victory, the strong army of Greek fans just marched from one side of Melbourne Park to the other, chanting and singing as they went.

Their destination? Melbourne Arena where Maria Sakkari is playing. Greek fans in Melbourne are just awesome Chanting and singing Sakkari's name at start of 3rd set after cheering on Tsitsipas earlier Like a soccer crowd AusOpen.

Another upset followed not long after their match as John Isner became the first top player to lose, bowing out in the first round to fellow giant Reilly Opelka.

The battle between the big dogs was the tallest ever grand slam match as the 2. Heather Watson had a day to forget. Source:Getty Images.

Heather Watson broke down in tears as she reflected on a tough day that saw her battle the extreme heat before being knocked out in straight sets by Croatian Petra Martic, who won their clash Nadal was finding his groove.

Rafael Nadal held off a third-set fightback from Aussie James Duckworth to claim a opening round win in Melbourne.

The Spaniard was in control for the whole match before looking shaky late in the third as Duckworth challenged the year-old. On Margaret Court Arena, No.

A few lesser-known Aussies made a bright start to their home grand slam, recording opening round wins.

Wildcard Zoe Hives, 22, also gave the home crowd reason to cheer when she defeated American Bethanie Mattek-Sands World No.

The 11th seeded Aryna Sabalenka took just over an hour to advance to the second round, easing past World No.

Katie Boulter went the early crow. Boulter jumped to the net after clinching a lead before realising she needed another three points to progress to the second round.

In an attempt to avoid marathon deciding sets, the opening grand slam of the year has undergone a rule change in If the deciding set is tied at , players square off in a first-to tie-break.

The emerging British star went on to progress — but the magic of the moment was lost in the blundering scenes created by the new third-set tie-break scoring system.

The announcers completely blew it but in the first ever point match tiebreaker at the Aussie, Boulter from the UK came to the net at thinking she had won the match.

In the first ever first to point tiebreak at the Australian Open, Katie Boulter thought she had won the match at up.

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