The best way to escape winter through your TV, watching some daytime tennis being played in 100 degree weather while it's freezing and dark here. It's like a dream. I vow to go there one day.

No surprises so far, the top 3 men looked to be in good form.

impressive victory over doppleganger

Hewitt. Straight sets too.

she just visited the ESPN studio...her English was half-decent!

Came back home and turned on the tv, just in time to witness her serving a double fault to lose it. She's allergic to home soil or something, smh. Hard to believe she's the same person who won the US Open by beating Serena in the final.

Also:

http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/video/diM2pmODpBVg8AkSD0A54yZrG3AgY1Gv.html#ooid=diM2pmODpBVg8AkSD0A54yZrG3AgY1Gv

Dude came back to win in 5 though.

wanna go to all the grand slams...lol ive visited the french open 2011 from the outside lol that's a start

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I was really sad to see that wrist injury cut him down when he was finally finding his full gm...so glad to finally see him regain it.

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That side of the draw is tough. Djokovic probably won't have to break a sweat until the final.

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Delpo/Chardy

...if Delpo gets the 3rd set though...he will win the match

The 11th game with Tomic serving for the 6-5 lead was just incredible. Tomic hitting power forehand after forehand and Fed playin some redonkulous defense.

Some great defense from Fed.

Dude is on a roll right now.

5th set, let's go!!

This is too good to be a 4th round match.

Respect to Stan the Man and the Djoker.

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At least Tomic took it to him for two sets and brought out his best, Raonic is looking, sad to say, Roddick-esque.

That's just ridiculous when you think about it. Murray vs Fed should be a great one.

'Pova seems to only play really well or really terrible downunder, 2 & 2, yeesh.

just saved like ten match points from renka

IT'S NOT A TUMOR!!!
http://deadspin.com/5978612/this-is-what-serena-williamss-ankle-looks-like

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6-6, Murray serving...gets Fed to pop up and Andy decides to try a jump spike rather than letting the ball go out (by all accounts, ball was going 6+ feet out)...ball lands right on Fed's backhand who then laces a cross-court winner to go up 7-6 and serve for the set. Handed Fed a HUGE point.

Andy could have really choked the air out of the match but now it's alive and well.

Breaks Fed in the 5th game and then isn't threatened on his serve to take the set. The composure and resiliency that characterized Murray's rise last year has most certainly become the norm for him.

The difference in their serves and ground stroke velocity has been stark.

Djokavic has got to be hoping for a 5th set.

Roger has more unforced errors but I'd bet a hefty wager that Andy has more errors when he is in control of the point highlighted by his last game and tie break.

But Roger scraping by in the big moments.

If Murray loses this thing he's going to be kicking himself for months.

Andy has responded again though man...took some pace off his backhand and it threw Fed's rythym off. Let's see if he takes control by holding serve for 3-0.

Murray was playing better and will almost certainly be the stiffer challenge to Djokovic.

Hats off to Roger for digging into his bag of tricks to get to a 5th set.

Andy was better pretty much across the board, particularly on his serve (quadrupled Fed's ace tally and his 2nd serve winning % was something like 20% higher than Feds, pretty astonishing). Honestly, it it's not for some critical mistakes on major points, could have been straight sets but props to Roger for capitalizing and going full bore in the tie breaks.

Andy's mental growth continues to impress. Hostile crowd, big errors, some weird breaks that didn't go his way (like that overrule and then challenge being wasted)...but he was resilient and responded everytime. The US open win helped him so much with his confidence and nerves...obviously carried into and was bolstered by his Gold medal as well. Always had the talent...now he's putting it all together and lets see if he can pass the ultimate test of having to face a rested Djoko.

still sad to see Fed lose. He did an incredible job of sending the match into the 5th set, but you could tell that he had used up his last energy reserve after winning the 4th. It was a bit hard to watch him show his age in the last half hour.

I got Murray winning in 5 over Djoko.

Huge ground strokes and even more incredible is how much ground these two are covering.

So hard for Murray to get free points on his serve.

His forehand has let him down a bit on long rallies though..might just be a tactical thing for him to save his legs a little bit.

A lot of missed ground strokes while Andy has settled in comfortably. I don't know if it's his legs or but Djoko is being so aggressive that he's trying to rip a lot of shots that aren't in his strike zone...creating errors.

Djoko just looked at his box with a 'are you serious' face...dude knows how it feels now lol...Murray getting to everything and somehow ripping lunging shots.

Murray looks superior right now but obviously this is FAR from over.

A bit anti-climatic after the first two sets, but at least it was better than the 2011 final. Good to see Murray fighting even though he probably knew he wasn't gonna win after his feet gave out.

Murray getting ground down just shows what freaks Nadal and Djok were in last year's final.

Murray ran out of gas after that 2nd set and it was all but over after that. Still very impressed by him but Djoko's conditioning and consistency shine yet again.