Australian Open 2010: Day 8 Round 4

Its finally down to the final 16 in Round 4 of the Australian Open. Those who win today progress to the quarter finals. There was 4 matches schedule for Hisense today. First of which is a mixed doubles featuring Flavia Pennetta & Marcelo Melo vs Jarmila Groth & Samuel Groth. That match is followed by women's singles featuring Na Li vs Caroline Wozniacki. The final 2 matches in Hisense was much more interesting than the first 2 matches. The first of the final 2 was a men's singles featuring Novak Djokovic vs Lukasz Kubot and then Jo-Wilfred Tsonga vs Nicolas Almagro.

Seeing as how I had no interest in the first 2 matches I decided to skip those and arrived at Hisense before the start of the Djokovic (white) vs Kubot match.






The match turned out to be a simple straight sets victory for the Serb despite the last set ending 7-5. Final Score: 6-1, 6-2. 7-5.


The final match of the day featuring Tsonga (yellow) vs Almagro was the most interesting match of the day.






The crowd for this match was once again amazing. Plenty of chanting and cheering going on. Though sadly for Almagro, most of it was in support of Tsonga. Tsonga's player box was really vocal in their support for him. This match turned out to be Tsonga's first ever 5 set match and the quality of tennis displayed by both players was amazing. Good thing for Tsonga that his first ever 5 set match ended in a victory with the final score of 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-7, 9-7.

Oh, I managed to get Djokovic's & Tsonga's Autograph! Yay me!!
Signed cap by Djokovic


My white France Jersey Signed by Tsonga.

I know their signatures dont look like much but hey, an autograph is still an autograph right?