Top seed Novak Djokovic and Mikhail Youzhny have advanced to the second round of ABN Amro indoor tennis tournament.

NOCAK Djokovic will strive to show that his recent case of indigestion at the Australian Open was just a case of bad luck, with the Serb world number two returning to action as top seed at the Rotterdam Open starting here on Monday.

Serena Williams produced a serving masterclass to end local interest in the women's draw with a 6-4, 6-2 demolition of Samantha Stosur in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Monday.

Chilean fans let off flares after countryman Fernando Gonzalez beat Marsel Ilhan of Turkey in second round yesterday.

Lleyton Hewitt will return to the world's top 20 after his run to the last 16 of the Australian Open and has a golden opportunity to push further up the rankings when he resumes playing next month.

Third seed Novak Djokovic eased to another routine win at the Australian Open to reach the quarter-finals. The 2008 winner needed less than two hours to claim a 6-1 6-2 7-5 win over the world number 86 Lukasz Kubot.

Eye of the tiger ... Novak Djokovic shows no mercy towards sick Pole Lukasz Kubot yesterday to advance to the quarter-finals. Photo: Reuters Sport mirrors life in many ways, not least a tendency to see only what suits us.

Third-seeded Novak Djokovic was back to his dominant self in a 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 win over Denis Istomin in the third round of the Australian Open.

The top men's seeds continued to make trouble-free progress at the Australian Open today as Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Nikolay Davydenko all secured comfortable straight-set wins.

Injuries and illness forced three players to withdraw Saturday from Australian Open matches and send their opponents to the fourth round.

A wrist injury forced Russia's Mikhail Youzhny to withdraw from the Australian Open on Saturday, handing Poland's Lukasz Kubot a free ride into the fourth round.

Friday, January 22, 2010 at 7:51 p.m. MELBOURNE, Australia - Serena Williams moved a step closer to successfully defending her Australian Open title and extracted some family revenge Saturday with a 6-0, 6-3 victory over Carla Suarez Navarro.

Djokovic plays Istomin and is followed by Tsonga and Haas. And let's not forget the women.

In the longest match of the 2010 Australian Open far , Mikhail Youzhny ousted Richard Gasquet 6-7 , 4-6, 7-6 , 7-6 , 6-4, trailing 0:3 in the fourth and 2:4 in the fifth set.

Margaret Court Arena was not packed with spectators, but the vocal, fiercely partisan crowd witnessed a gutsy and resourceful performance by the Russian Mikhail Youzhny .

Having said that, he's gone a bit quiet and I never found out if Vassos Alexander made it back.

Former world No. 8 Marcos Baghdatis stormed to his second title in his lastA three attempts on Saturday, defeating the competent challenge of Richard Gasquet 6-4, 7-6 . Capturing the Stockholm title in November , Baghdatis was adamant on controlling the tempoA from the back of the courtA during his first career match against Gasquet.

This is the first of Ricky's five-part Australian Open preview series, running through Saturday.

At long last we have some definite results coming out of the first three tournaments of the year.

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