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Australian Open 2025
Dates: 12-26 January Venue: Melbourne Park
Coverage: Live vigor commentary connected Tennis Breakfast from 07:00 GMT connected BBC 5 Sports Extra, positive unrecorded substance commentaries connected the BBC Sport website and app
Qinwen Zheng admitted it was not her time arsenic she was beaten successful the Australian Open 2nd circular successful the biggest daze of the tourney truthful far.
China's Zheng, runner-up to Aryna Sabalenka past twelvemonth and the Olympic singles golden medallist, mislaid 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 to German seasoned Laura Siegemund.
The 5th effect is the highest ranked subordinate from either singles gully to suffer truthful acold astatine Melbourne Park.
Zheng was irked by 2 clip violations during the match, 1 of which outgo her a archetypal serve.
She complained to the umpire that she could not spot the changeable clock, which tells players however agelong they person near to service earlier the 25 2nd allowance runs out.
"Maybe contiguous is not my day," Zheng, 22, said.
"There's a batch of details successful the important points. I didn't bash the close choice."
Two-time defending champion Sabalenka avoided the aforesaid destiny but was made to enactment successful her 6-3 7-5 triumph against Spain's Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.
World fig 1 Sabalenka was 5-2 down successful the 2nd acceptable earlier mounting a comeback.
"I privation radical to cognize I'm not that brainsick disconnected court. It's lone the on-court Aryna," the Belarusian joked with the assemblage afterwards.
"I'm a bully idiosyncratic disconnected the court. I'm not definite if my squad volition hold with that... but I'm nice, I promise."
Fellow two-time victor Naomi Osaka besides won, coming from a acceptable down to bushed Karolina Muchova, portion rubric contender Coco Gauff is successful enactment aboriginal connected Wednesday.
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