Melbourne -
Tommy Haas reached the only German player on Thursday the third round of the Australian Open in Melbourne.
During the 31-year-old in a five-set thriller to the Serbs Janko Tipsarevic 4-6, 6-4, 6:3, 1:6, 6:3 in 3:19 hours, disappointed Sabine Lisicki lowly German as a second out hope . The ambitious Berliner defeated the Italian Alberta Brianti surprising 6:2, 4:6, 4:6.
Haas is the third of eleven launched German men who are into the round of 32 pushed past the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. His opponent on Saturday, the Frenchman against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or Taylor Dent (USA). Already on Wednesday had Philipp Kohlschreiber (Augsburg) and Florian Mayer (Bayreuth, Germany) reached the third round, they stand on Friday against Rafael Nadal (Nadal) and Juan Martin Del Potro (Mayer) very heavy tasks.
Lisicki crowned "with the failures of their defeat of the German players on the fourth day of the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. In addition to the 20-year-olds remained Kristina Barrois (Stuttgart), Julia Görges (Bad Oldesloe) and Andrea Petkovic (Darmstadt) and Benjamin Becker (Orscholz) and Michael Berrer (Stuttgart) on the track.
In the women's singles Angelique Kerber Kielerin is the only German in the third round. Petkovic defeated the Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro 1:6, 4:6. Görges had at 3:6, 1:6 against the world number Fourth Caroline Wozniacki no chance. Barrois lost to Samantha Stosur (Australia) 5-7, 3-6. Except Lisicki, the other German women, however, played against in the world ranking listed better opponents. Kerber occurs on Friday against Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in three set at.
In the men had Michael Berrer the superiority of the Uzbek Denis Istomin at 57, 3:6, 4:6 recognize. Benjamin Becker had some bad luck with the supplied Nicolas Almagro an exciting fight, but in the end still had to bend with 4:6, 2:6, 6:3, 6:4, 3:6 to the Spaniard.
