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Organisers, tennis fans and even the Australian No. 1’s detractors will be feeling the loss of the Australian Open’sBut last night, as if to fill the recently inflicted Kyrgios-shaped hole in the tournament, Sydney 21-year-old Rinky Hijikata put on an arena-worthy show.
By the end of the five-set epic there wasn’t a spare seat in the crowd and the roaring standing ovations from Court 8 sounded more like a 14,500-strong crowd at Rod Laver Arena. On Court 3, Jordan Thompson will play back-to-back with wildcard Alexei Popyrin, who turned heads in Adelaide by beating Felix Auger-Aliassime and making the quarter-final despite the Canadian’s 114 lead in ranking positions.Aleksandar Vukic is slated to play fellow qualifier Brandon Holt at 4pm AEDT at 1573 Arena.
A Russian flag is seen during the first round match between Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia and Kateryna Baindl of Ukraine at the Australian Open.Vasyl Myroshynchenko tweeted that Tennis Australia should enforce its “neutral flag policy” to ban the Russian flag from being flown by fans in the stands because of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. but they cannot compete under their country’s name, and the flags beside their names have been whited out in all TV displays.
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