re: Official 2012 Australian Open Thread

Donald Young trying his hardest to shite the bad

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great match bw tomic and verdasco

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Verdasco seems to be more interested in his modeling career these days . Solid win for Tomic.

coming up next.

nana

The Americans look great so far.

Also, it's only one game into the match, but Fed just had the most impressive game I've ever seen him have.

Apparently Nadal is the walking wounded right now. First he's having shoulder issues, then he hurts his knee while sitting in a chair...

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Rafael Nadal says he suffered a right knee injury while sitting in a chair on Sunday and was nearly forced to pull out of the Australian Open. The Spaniard and world No. 2 did manage to play and beat American Alex Kuznetsov 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in the first round on Monday. Nadal played with a heavy strap on his knee. He said an MRI revealed no damage.

"Yesterday afternoon happened the [most] strange thing ever happen to me," he told reporters. "I was sitting on a chair in the hotel. I felt like a crack on the knee, but is nothing really strange. Happens lot of time with articulation, movement, articulation. Nothing strange. I stand up. I felt the knee a little bit strange. I moved the leg two times to try to find the feeling. After the second time, the knee stays with an unbelievable pain completely straight. I have no movement on the knee. I had a hard afternoon. And seriously, yesterday during the evening I wasn't 100 percent sure I would have chance to play, because with the movement of that knee I felt that I will not be able to play. I did a lot of treatment...Finally what happened is with the movement, articulation, probably pinch maybe the tendon little bit or something that put the tendon completely straight. We did a lot of work during the evening. At the end of the night with a lot of pain, but I finally really had the full movement of the knee. I woke up today with a little bit better feeling. I started the match with a little bit of scare at the beginning, and nervous. But after the first 10 games that was scare, I started to play with normal conditions. The best thing is I felt the knee very well."

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I didn't catch his first round match, but supposedly he looked great. I'm starting to think he's a hypochondriac.

Nah, it's Federer's fault.

Roddick nay not see the court until 3 am central time. I love these late nights.

Nole looking good

WHY IS MARIA NOT ON MY TV???

Nole making quick work of Lorenzi.

Just another day at the office.