Buckle up possums, it’s the Australian Open!

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I didn’t see Emma’s match but apparently there was some sort of incident with a man having to be taken away by the police while Emma was in tears and hiding behind the umpire’s chair. It sounds awful, I know she’s had some problems with stalkers.

That does sound scary. Hope she's ok.

Poor Emma. Having read an article about it this morning, I'm surprised she was able to come back from 0-4 in the 1st set and make a match of it.

Daniil is playing Bergs. Still wearing the horrible green shorts and the strange top .

I saw Stef lost yesterday. Three closes sets. That will be a blow , he's not having thr best start to the year.

Medjedovic paid a heavy price for winning his match, by the look of things- played for a lot of the final tie break with an injured hamstring, and has now been forced to withdraw.

Easy win for Daniil.

I saw the very end of the match, he could barely walk! Unbelievable that he managed to win, Stef just needed to move him around and somehow couldn’t.

Carlos is one set apiece against Luca Nardi. Luca had an amazing period of play at the end of the second set but Carlos has now broken in the third. Vamos!

Well done Carlos.

Come On Matteo! This is a close first set, and fairly quick.

Forza Matteo!

Physio out for Tallon- which is a shame, I want Matteo to win, but it's been a good match so far.

Seems ok though

Tallon seems to have improved since his injury scare.

Come on Matteo wrap this up before Eastenders

Oof- a 3rd set.

Come on Matteo, break him so we don’t have to have another tie break!

Yes!

Well done Matteo. Pleased to see him doing well again, hopefully he can keep going and get a good seeding in time for grass season.

Oh well done!

He really needs the boost.

Yes it's good to see Matteo doing well - he's had a couple of tough years with illness and injury - it's always nice to see him

He plays Jack Draper next which hopefully Sky will show as they only seem to show British players

The Emma Radacanu thing was awful - must be so scary for her

It is always nice to see Matteo Fizzy. (I was not wondering if he was wearing his Boss pants at all ).

I have no doubt the Draper match will be shown, since Sky have been prioritising women's matches til now (Dubai is higher level tournament than Doha, though for the women) but a lot of the top names have gone from the draw in Dubai (although Iga and Elena remain).

Oh yes Raahh - Matteo in his Boss pants

The annoying thing about Sky is that they don't seem to prioritise interesting matches (well the ones that I would find interesting anyway!)

No, they have a different idea of interesting to me .

I keep finding the men's matches on channels they don't usually put the tennis on (on Virgin) which is a bit random.

I was disappointed Matteo has gone back to the beige kit, that purple he was wearing for AO looked great on him. Although he’d look great in nothing anything. I’m not sure he will beat Jack, I feel like lefties are a bad match up for him with his weaker backhand side.

No, he obviously lost to Jack in Stuttgart (still got a bike though ).

Hmm yes I wonder - did Jack ever get his bike?

I seem to be doing most of my tennis watching when I should be asleep! Shevchenko played well but couldn't get the better of Sascha. The commentator kept saying Zverev was in bad form even though there was no evidence of that whatsoever. I hate commentary that consists of telling us what a player is thinking or feeling.

My phone has underlined all the names in red. Hmm. The feds probably think I'm a Russian spy (or is that considered a good thing in Trumpworld?)