Roger Federer
Also yesterday, six-time champion Novak Djokovic returned to action for the first time since Wimbledon with a one-sided win over Donald Young in the opening round match.
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Wawrinka, facing a harder hitter in Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania, dropped the third set but still pulled through 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (2).
Djokovic, gunning for a seventh Australian Open title, was also glad to be back, having missed the competitive edge. I had various emotions, mostly good ones, excitement, joy, gratitude for being able to have an opportunity to compete. Rodge looked great, so great that even John McEnroe ran out of questions in his on-court interview (how many time can you ask: 'how do you get to be so great for so long?') and invited Will Ferrell on court to help him out.
After being eliminated in the first round of the US Open by Andrey Rublev, he suffered three second-round exits in a row to end his season. But she made a meal of it against local hope Destanee Aiava. But Federer's backhand from previous year was quickly into its groove, he charged the net for touch volleys and the odd crowd-pleasing smash, slotted 12 aces, and made 41 winners-from around 170 points.
The five-time major champion said it was her choice to return, though, and she relished every moment of it in Tuesday's 6-1, 6-4 victory over Tatjana Maria.
The interview, which was most likely the most weird Federer has experienced, followed his win last night where he continued the longest first-round winning streak in tennis, easing past Slovenian Aljaz Bedene to make it 19 successive tournament-opening wins at the Australian Open.
"I felt like I have got a lot of things out of the way physically and emotionally and mentally a year ago", she said.
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Djokovic said there had been no discussion about player unions, though American former world number one Andy Roddick took to social media to support the idea.
She is now on a 10-match win streak after a flawless early season.
The 32-year-old, who reached the semi-finals in 2017, needed just shy of three hours to secure a match with Tennys Sandgren.
In the rest of the men's bracket, top seeds Dominic Thiem, Stan Wawrinka, Alexander Zverev, Juan Martin del Potro, Tomas Berdych and David Goffin all booked their place in the second round with relative ease, with Milos Raonic the only notable casualty. He was dominant in the straight-set victory, and remains one of the favorites to win again.
Tennis fans at Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday night were privileged to see the 18-time grand slam victor do as only he can before being treated to a special one-off on-court interview.
The 12-times grand slam champion will face a huge step up in class in the next round, against Frenchman Gael Monfils, a quarter-finalist at Melbourne Park in 2016.
Anna-Lena Friedsam proved no match for compatriot and 2016 victor Angelique Kerber, while Karolina Pliskova beat Veronica Cepede Royg, Garbine Muguruza eased any lingering fitness fears by vanquishing Jessika Ponchet and Carolina Garcia knocked out Carina Witthoeft.
No. 17-seeded Keys, the runner-up at the U.S. Open, had a 6-1, 7-5 win over Wang Qiang. "There were no decisions being made, there was no talk of boycotts or anything like that - that's all I can say really".
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