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Australian Open Day 8 Notes
Posted on January 21, 2008
Just once has Lleyton Hewitt reached the quarterfinals or better at the Australian Open, that coming in his runner-up effort to Marat Safin in 2005...
After losing to Novak Djokovic, Lleyton Hewitt has now lost his last 10 matches vs. Top 10 players in Grand Slams...
James Blake has reached his third career Grand Slam quarterfinal...
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are the only men's players still to not lose a set...
Roger Federer told the press Monday that he'd like to see the start times to night sessions at the Australian Open and the US Open moved up to 6:30pm...
Roger Federer has reached his last 14 Grand Slam semifinals...
Justine Henin has won 32 straight matches...
Serena Williams has won 27 of her last 28 matches in Melbourne...
Russians Nadia Petrova and Maria Kirilenko both blew set + break leads on Monday in Melbourne...
Daniela Hantuchova has never been to a Grand Slam semifinal. She's reached her first Slam quarterfinal since 2003 Australian Open...
Novak Djokovic joins Magnus Norman and Sergi Bruguera as the only players to straight-set Lleyton Hewitt at the Australian Open...
Ana Ivanovic has never beaten Venus Williams in four career meetings...
Temperatures are expected to warm slightly in Melbourne, with some showers expected over the weekend...
Agnieska Radwanska is the first female from Poland to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal...
Roger Federer has more hard court titles than the rest of the remaining field combined (36 to 20)...
Rafael Nadal has only lost one set in three matches to Jarkko Nieminen. Nadal is 23-3 vs. fellow lefties...
Jarkko Nieminen has never beaten a Top 5 ranked player. Ever. He is also trying to become the first Finn to reach a slam semifinal...
Mikhail Youzhny has won his first 9 matches of 2008. The Russian has also won 12 straight matches against Frenchmen...
The last unseeded Frenchman to reach a Grand Slam semifinals was Cedric Pioline at the 1999 US Open...
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has a French mother and a Congolese father and resides in Le Mans, most famous for its connection to motor sports. Tsonga grew up with fellow French tennis player Gael Monfils.
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