Sharapova in Australia will compete for the victory and the title of the first in the world
MOSCOW, 18 Jan - R-Sport, Andrey Simonenko. The Australian open tennis, the 1st tournament of the Grand Slam of the season, starts on the first day of the week in Melbourne. Russian representation in the current year, four athletes in the men's singles and ten athletes in women. From the real contenders to win can be noted Only Maria Sharapova.
Sharapova in last season added to his collection of titles Grand Slam victory at the Open championship of France, and at the end of the season, She really fought for the title of the first racket of the world for the year. Currently, the Citizen of Russia takes the second place after the chart American Serena Williams 781 point. Last season the two players reached the 4th round, and This means that they are supposed to protect the same number of points. Victory in the competition will Sharapova at the top of the rating, provided that her opponent will lose previously finals.
The probability that Mary will be able to go with the Green continent with the title of the first racket of the world, is quite high. Sharapova showed a great deal of play in their own tournament starting this season. She became a champion in Sydney, winning, for Example, matches the perspective Ukrainka by Elina Svitolina, strong Spaniard Carla Suarez-Navarro and former first racket of the world Ana Ivanovic. Williams at the Hopman Cup has won Only one match out Of three, giving the canadian Eugenie Bouchard and to Agnieszka Radwanska.
However, to call Sharapova and Williams 2 exceptional contenders for victory in the first Grand Slam tournament of the season will be wrong. Managed to cross the offseason without losing form powerfully finished last season Danish Caroline Wozniacki. Very well prepared the same Radwanska. In order Czech Petra Kvitova, won in the first day of the weekend tournament in Sydney. Plus, as always, there are "dark horses" - for example, playing in the finals of Sydney Carolina Pliskova From the Czech Republic.
have the opportunity to show good result in Melbourne and other Russians, in addition to Sharapova. For example, Ekaterina Makarova, who for the first time in his career rose in January to 10th place in the world rankings. Able to intervene in the struggle for big prizes Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (23rd room in the world rankings) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (27). Also attracts the attention of participation in competitions Vera Zvonareva, trying to return to the elite of tennis after a long break. By the way, It's already in the 2nd round can meet Serena Williams.
in men's singles Russians are unlikely to succeed to become the major newsmakers next 2 weeks. But the next day one Of them has the chance to remind myself. Talking about Mikhail Youzhny, who will draw it is assumed in the 1st round to play with Spaniard Rafael Nadal. South in January, has played Only one match, losing to the Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili. But Nadal played much better after the surgery to remove the Appendix in early November, he spent Only one official match and defeated him in January at the tournament in Doha German Michael Barrera, not included in the top 100 in the world rankings.
Recent trends declare that to the South, and three other citizens of Russia in the men's net, Win two or three games will be a good result at Australian Open, reaching the quarterfinals - a great achievement. Only on the grid Andrey Kuznetsov in the 2nd round shines exit at the 1st world number one Novak Djokovic, and Alexander Kudryavtsev - at Briton Andy Murray (6). More or less "continuous" mesh Only Teimuraz Gabashvili.
Total balance men's grid is as follows: the main contenders for victory all the same: Djokovic and Roger Federer, seeded at the first and second numbers, respectively. Djokovic, despite losing in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Doha from Croat Ivo Karlovic, no doubt, will meet on no less important start, but Federer has already won in January next title. This happened in Brisbane, in addition towards the Swiss took over the 11th number in the world rankings Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and eighth racket of the world canadian Milos Raychem. Victory over Raychem became the 1000th career Federer.
However, the success of the Croat Marin Cilic in the last Grand Slam tournament last year, the US Open, proved that the circle of contenders expanding. The same Raonic, Spaniard David Ferrer, the Latvian Ernest Gulbis Is not obvious, But anyway, the real candidates for success in the Australian Open.
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