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2012 Australian Open champions Victoria Azarenka and Novak Djokovic attended the official draw of the 2013 Australian Open in Melbourne today. The two arrived via sailing vessel before assisting in creating the draws. View the women’s singles draw and men’s singles draw and feel free to freak out about your favorite.
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God knows what ungodly hour Australian Open Champion Novak Djokovic got to bed last night after his epic 5-set win over Rafael Nadal. Hopefully he got more sleep than his match time – 5 hours and 53 minutes.
This morning, the now 5-time Grand Slam champion posed with his trophy at a park in central [...]
Photo of the day: Fantastic final.
Match of the day: [1] Novak Djokovic def [2] Rafael Nadal 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7, 7-5 to defend his Australian Open title and win his career fifth Grand Slam title.
The test of time: Tonight’s Men’s Final was the in the longest final in Grand Slam history – 5 hours and 53 minutes [...]
After his grand win last night, Novak Djokovic posed with his new Norman Brookes Challenge Cup in the players locker room after. Nole even rested his head on his new piece of hardware. It’s past 4:00am there, I think that’s ok.
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Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7, 7-5, in the longest final in Grand Slam history – 5 hours and 53 minutes. The win was worthy of the winning moment celebration: Hulktastic.
After a late night of celebrating, no doubt, Victoria Azarenka still managed to look fresh and beautiful as she posed with her two new friends on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne – the Daphne Akhurst Australian Open trophy and the WTA world number 1 trophy.
Love the outfit, the va-va-voom hair and [...]
The Can-Can originated in France so it’s only fitting that the lively French Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was taught the dance today at the Australian Open by dancer Peita Farrell.
Jo already has his own signature post-win celebration but adding a few can-can kicks could definitely liven it up… if that’s even possible.
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The only painting we usually see tennis players doing is painting the lines on the court (a figure of speech, of course). Today at the Australian Open, Germany’s Sabine Lisicki did some face painting of young girls during a promotional event.
It looks like Sabine was starting to paint a sunshine on a girl’s cheek in [...]
There’s been so much focus on Ivan Lendl lately that Andy Murray’s box has really taken a hit. Perfect example is in the picture above. Sure, the photographer captured the entire box but why are Judy Murray and Kim Sears squeezed in on the left side? Don’t the photogs know they’re who we want to [...]
Victoria Azarenka lounged around in a box full of Wilson tennis balls today at the Australian Open. In all seriousness, lying in a pool of those must feel really good on a sore back.
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