Australian Open Betting Results

Roger Federer, world number two and defending champion, and Serbian Novak Djokovic (number three) went round yesterday, both with difficulties in the Australian Open tennis, while Argentine Juan Monaco was eliminated.

For its part, the highest ranked player in the world, the Spanish Rafael Nadal crushed last night (Thursday in Australia) to American Ryan Sweeting 6-2, 6-1, 6-1.

The overwhelming result of the Spaniard is in addition to his first game in which just spent three quarters of an hour on the track against Brazil's Marcos Daniel, who left without scoring a game (6-0 and 5-0)

Federer, who acknowledged having "lucky" and came close to elimination, qualified by defeating Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3 and will play the next game against the Belgian Xavier Malisse, while Djokovic needed four sets to beat Ivan Dodig, ranquin No. 81 of the world, 7-5, 6-7 (8 / 10), 6-0, 6-2.

"I'm not happy with my game in the first two sets but then things went better," said the Serb, who will face the next round to Viktor Troicki.

For its part, Monaco fell to the Dutchman Robin Haase 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.

Among the favorites, Czech Tomas Berdych (seeded six) and Andy Roddick (eight) also qualified by beating German Philipp Kohlschreiber respectively (4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4) and Russian Igor Kunitsyn (-9/7- 7-6, 6-2, 6-3). He also had difficulties in Spanish Fernando Verdasco, seeded nine, and almost losing to Janko Tipsarevic, who won 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7 / 0) and 6 -0.