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 Serb Janko Tipsarevic, with 4:6, 6:4, 6:3, 1:6, 6:3 vanquished in 3:19 hours, disappointing as the second German Sabine Lisicki out hope . The ambitious Berlin woman succumbed to the Italian Alberta Brianti surprisingly 6:2, 4:6, 4:6.
Haas has launched the third of eleven German men who till the round is pushed to the last 32 at the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. His opponent on Saturday is the Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or Taylor Dent (USA). On Wednesday Philipp Kohlschreiber (Augsburg) and Florian Mayer (Bayreuth had been reached), the third round, they stand on Friday against Rafael Nadal (Kohlschreiber) and Juan Martin Del Potro (Mayer) remains very difficult tasks.
Lisicki "crowned" with their defeat, the failures of 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, Germany) as well as Benjamin Becker (Orscholz) and Michael Berrer (Stuttgart) on the track.
In the women's singles, the Kiel, Angelique Kerber, 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 fourth-ranking Caroline Wozniacki no chance. Barrois lost to Samantha Stosur (Australia) 5:7, 3:6. Except Lisicki, the other German ladies, however, playing against better opponents in the world ranking listed. Kerber occurs on Friday against the set of three Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Among men, Michael had Berrer the superiority of the Uzbek Denis Istomin at 57, 3-6, to recognize 4:6. Somewhat unlucky himself with Benjamin Becker, Nicolas Almagro provided an exciting fight, but in the end still had to lean with 4:6, 2:6, 6:3, 6:4, 3:6 to the Spaniard.
