Principalii favoriți de pe partea inferioară de tablou s-au descurcat destul de bine la meciurile de debut de la Australian Open, Rafael Nadal, Daniil Medvedev și Stefanos Tsitsipas câștigându-și meciurile fără să piardă vreun set.
Radu Albot (Moldova) și Alexei Popyrin (Australia) au reușit surprizele zilei: i-au eliminat pe favoriții Roberto Bautista Agut (12), respectiv David Goffin (13).
Turul I, rezultate consemnate marți:
7-Andrey Rublev vs Yannick Hanfmann 6-3 6-3 6-4
Thiago Monteiro vs Andrej Martin 7-6(6) 6-1 6-2
Feliciano Lopez vs Li Tu 6-7(1) 6-4 7-6(4) 6-4
31-Lorenzo Sonego vs Sam Querrey 7-5 6-4 6-4
24-Casper Ruud vs Jordan Thompson 6-3 6-3 (abandon)
Tommy Paul vs Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-4 7-6(0) 6-4
Christopher OConnell vs Jan-Lennard Struff 7-6(2) 7-6(5) 6-1
Radu Albot vs 12-Roberto Bautista Agut 6-7(1) 6-0 6-4 7-6(5)
Alexei Popyrin vs 13-David Goffin 3-6 6-4 6-7(4) 7-6(6) 6-3
Lloyd Harris vs Mikael Torpegaard 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-2
Mackenzie McDonald vs Marco Cecchinato 3-6 6-3 6-2 6-2
22-Borna Coric vs Guido Pella 6-3 7-6(5) 7-5
28-Filip Krajinovic vs Robin Haase 7-6(4) 6-3 4-6 6-2
Pablo Andujar vs Quentin Halys 6-4 7-5 7-5
Roberto Carballes Baena vs Attila Balazs 7-5 3-6 6-2 6-3
4-Daniil Medvedev vs Vasek Pospisil 6-2 6-2 6-4
5-Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Gilles Simon 6-1 6-2 6-1
Thanasi Kokkinakis vs Soon Woo Kwon 6-4 6-1 6-1
Carlos Alcaraz vs Botic van de Zandschulp 6-1 6-4 6-4
Mikael Ymer vs 26-Hubert Hurkacz 3-6 6-3 3-6 7-5 6-3
19-Karen Khachanov vs Aleksandar Vukic 6-3 6-7(4) 7-6(2) 6-4
Ricardas Berankis vs Sumit Nagal 6-2 7-5 6-3
Tomas Machac vs Mario Vilella Martinez 6-7(5) 7-5 6-0 (abandon Mario)
9-Matteo Berrettini vs Kevin Anderson 7-6(9) 7-5 6-3
16-Fabio Fognini vs Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-4 6-2 6-3
Salvatore Caruso vs Henri Laaksonen 6-2 6-4 6-3
Pablo Cuevas vs Andreas Seppi 6-4 4-6 6-2 6-2
21-Alex De Minaur vs Tennys Sandgren 7-5 6-1 6-1
Cameron Norrie vs 30-Daniel Evans 6-4 4-6 6-4 7-5
Roman Safiullin vs Ilya Ivashka 6-4 6-3 6-4
Michael Mmoh vs Viktor Troicki 7-6(3) 6-7(3) 3-6 7-6(3) 7-5
2-Rafael Nadal vs Laslo Djere 6-3 6-4 6-1.
