australian open - day 3

nalbandian/wawrinka: didn't see anything wrong with wawrinka play at all but somehow he loses that match. he served like rainer schuttler and very straight forward with his shots - nothing fancy. in fact, i think nalbandian is the lousy one between 2 of them but he just got that bit extra than wawrinka, isn't he? atp feature wawrinka as the one to watch for this week coz he jumped to no.46 in the world after last week's good performance.

sharapova has another good match. if s.williams win her match against hanthucova, sharapova will meet her in the q-final.

tidbits:

It sounds like Andy Roddick found his mojo. Australian tabloids have reported, quite breathlessly, that tennis' top male hottie has been seen with his female counterpart, Maria Sharapova, on the town at the Australian Open.
mercury news

Jim Courier, the Australian Open champion in 1992 and 1993, believed entourages had expanded in line with increasing prizemoney. "With the advent of players being able to afford to have coaches, girlfriends, wives, boyfriends, husbands, trainers, etc, it's just followed naturally from there," he said. read more about "who said tennis wasn't a team sports?"

day 4 schedule of play
day 3 complete result
day 4 tv schedule (for SEA only) will begins at 8am and end after the final match of the night session.