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Date: 12 January 2021 Tournament: Australian Open 2021 qualifiers Round: Second round Venue: Dubai, UAE Category: Grand Slam Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt Tsvetana Pironkova vs Na-lae Han preview Tsvetana Pironkova got her 2021 season underway with a resounding 6-0, 6-1 victory over Japan’s Kyoka Okamura in the first round of the Australian Open qualifiers. The Bulgarian made the best use of the fast courts, and asserted her aggressive game right from the start....

Date: 21 January 2022. Tournament: Australian Open 2022. Round: Third round (Round of 32). Venue: Melbourne, Australia. Category: Grand Slam. Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt. Prize money: $75,000,000. Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Eurosport | India - Sony Six, Sony Liv. Naomi Osaka vs Amanda Anisimova preview Defending champion Naomi Osaka and the in-form Amanda Anisimova will square off in a blockbuster third-round match at the Australian Open on Friday....

Play was due to get underway at 10:00 local time (23:00 GMT), but thick smoke blanketed Melbourne, leading to it being pushed back by an hour. Bushfires have ravaged Australia in recent months and there have been concerns over player and spectator welfare at the year’s first grand slam, with the main draw beginning on Monday. The poor air quality has already impacted the event, with the Australian Open announcing practice had also been suspended during the morning on Tuesday....

After getting embarrassed in Game 2 last weekend, the Lightning dominated the Avalanche 6-2 at home in Game 3 on Monday. With the victory, Tampa Bay has now won eight-straight games at home, and the Avs suffered their first playoff road loss. The Lightning asserted themselves from the first period and cashed in on Colorado’s miscues. Steven Stamkos was one of the stars for Tampa Bay, scoring his first goal of the Stanley Cup and recording two points....

Keeping them up to date is a continuing task, as new updates are regularly released to take advantage of new features, or to correct bugs and other problems. Driver Genius 14 Professional aims to take most of the pain out of the update process, by automatically scanning your system and downloading updates from its own database of over 100,000 drivers. Although this is large, there’s still a chance that drivers for more obscure hardware may be missed and not be flagged up for attention....

Avatar: The Way of Water, set to release on December 16, is coming out thirteen years after its predecessor, 2009’s Avatar. Avatar was recently rereleased to a phenomenal box office, showing that the franchise still has legs in it yet. The film is set roughly the same amount of time after the first in-universe; in the years following the first film, Jake and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) have grown their family and their clan has mostly recovered from the massacre it suffered in the first film....

Nevertheless, the creative director behind The Avengers Project, Shaun Escayg, recently took to Twitter to express his enthusiasm for the forthcoming game. While he didn’t say much, it’s worth mentioning that January 2019 will be two years since the announcement of the Avengers Project, and the developers have taken a “mum’s the word” approach to news for the title ever since. From Escayg’s tweet, there are two standout factors. First, it mentions that the game itself is highly ambitious, potentially further hyping it for those who heavily desire its release....

In the 98th over of the England innings bowled by Varun Aaron, a bouncer sneaked past his helmet, i.e between the helmet’s peak and the lower protective grill to hit him on the nose. The 28-year-old was forced to retire hurt and did not take any part further in the match. Ayrtek, the manufacturers of the unique brand of helmets, once claimed that their model is better in saving a batsman from suffering these type of injuries....

The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is Sachin Tendulkar‘s favourite venue, looking at his staggering average here of 221, and there can’t be a more perfect stage for him to hit his 100th hundred than the 100th Test here, starting Tuesday. The SCG was the centre of a major controversy in 2008 in the last Test between the two sides, which notoriously come to be known as Monkeygate, and Australian media has dug it up to tarnish Tendulkar’s image by linking him to it just when he is looking to get to his greatest milestone here....

The 37th ranked Bouchard came out harder, stepping inside the baseline time and time again and ripping her huge groundstrokes into the corners to build a 4-2 lead. But Polish Radwanska held her ground, clawing back to take the set 6-4 - she ripped a huge forehand winner on her fifth set point to seal the one set lead. And she continued to pile it on in the second set, breaking again in the very first game and never really looking back, one last Bouchard error giving the No....

Djokovic, the dominant Serbian who is a five-time champion at Melbourne Park, will meet up-and-coming South Korean Chung Hyeon. Kei Nishikori, who faces Philipp Kohlschreiber in the first round, is in Djokovic’s quarter of the draw. MORE: Djokovic’s 2015 season, in photos | Full list of men’s seeds In his 20th consecutive and final Australian Open appearance, Hewitt will take on fellow Australian James Duckworth. No. 2 seed Andy Murray takes on emerging German Alexander Zverev, with David Ferrer in the Brit’s quarter....

Some have brushed off these withdrawals as mere precautionary measures by the top women, but there is certainly a little cause for concern about whether the field in Melbourne will be in the best competitive shape. On that sombre note, here’s a look at how the draw has been stacked this year, and if anyone other than Serena Williams has a prayer of a chance Down Under: First quarter: Serena’s battle with boredom After her thrill-a-minute 2015 season that briefly threatened to put tennis on the global map as THE sport to follow, Serena Williams is due for a let-down – or so most experts would have you believe....

Things look grim in Australia with the country being ravaged by bushfires, and the tennis fraternity is coming together in solidarity for the cause. Federer, 38 years old now, decided to sit out the inaugural edition of the ATP Cup which is being played over three Australian cities. In order to attune himself the hardcourt turf in Melbourne, the Swiss maestro has already hit the practice courts. Having had to suffer a crushing fourth-round exit at the 2019 edition of the tournament against Stefanos Tsitsipas, Federer will not want to leave any room for mistakes this time around....

Osaka and Brady traded service breaks in the first eight games as neither player could gain momentum. However, the 23-year-old Osaka would take over, taking advantage of a sloppy Brady service game to take the first set 6-4. From here, it was all Osaka, immediately breaking twice to take the first four games of the second set. While Brady would claim one of the breaks back, Osaka was unfazed, serving it out to claim her fourth grand slam title....

Date: 21 January 2022 Tournament: Australian Open Round: Third round (Round of 32) Venue: Melbourne Park Category: Grand Slam Surface: Hard Prize Money: $75,000,000 Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Eurosport | India - Sony Six, Sony Liv Ashleigh Barty vs Camila Giorgi preview World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty is the favorite to win this year’s Australian Open. After dropping only three games so far, the 25-year-old will face 30th seed Camila Giorgi for a place in the fourth round of the tournament....

Auto Chess first started as a Dota 2 mod inspired by a number of games like chess and Chinese Mahjong as well as video game genres such as MOBAs and tactical strategy games. In Auto Chess, players must strategically assign pieces onto the board as they would in chess, and the pieces then battle it out automatically after each opponent has their turn as they would in a strategy video game....

Babyface must coordinate with his AI pal, Droney, to take back control of the city’s underground activities. Players can use their fists, melee weapons, guns, and environmental objects to deal damage to their enemies in the game. Master the art of fighting in a dark world, waiting to kill Babyface at every turn. Here are a few awesome things people didn’t know they could do in Midnight Fight Express....

Axelsen, the newly crowned World No. 1 after he clinched his maiden World Championship gold at Glasgow, and reigning All England champion Tai Tzu, who also won titles at Malaysia, Singapore, have confirmed their participation at the PBL, to be organised by Sportzlive under the aegis of Badminton Association of India (BAI). Rio Olympic champion Carolina Marin of Spain and India’s World No. 2 P V Sindhu, World Championship bronze medallist, Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth are expected to be the top draws during the auction, which allows each franchise to spend Rs 2....

Williams paid tribute to Ivanovic's quality in a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 fourth-round loss which has shaken the women's singles draw. MORE: Sloane Stephens carries U.S. hopes | Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard advances Ivanovic, a former world No. 1, blitzed Williams, who entered the match amid rumors of a back problem. Williams admitted to issues, but was careful to make clear Ivanovic's red-hot play was more the reason for her defeat than injury....