Live: Outside matches paused as rain arrives at Australian Open

Listed here are the Australians enjoying on day one at Melbourne Park (all instances AEDT):

Omar Jasika (WC) vs Hugo Gaston from 11am on Courtroom 3, adopted by Adam Walton vs Quentin HalysAleksandar Vukic vs Damir Dzumhur from 3:30pm on Kia EnviornmentJiří Lehečka (24) vs Li Tu (WC) from 6pm on Margaret Courtroom Enviornment, adopted by Daria Saville (WC) vs Anna Blinkova

After successful the primary set towards Marie Bouzkova, 14th seed Mirra Andreeva has began the second in fashion, a lot to the delight of coach and 1994 Wimbledon winner Conchita Martinez.

The opposite matches nonetheless going are Qinwen Zheng (5) vs Anca Todoni (Q) on Rod Laver Enviornment and Arthur Fils (20) vs Otto Virtanen on Margaret Courtroom Enviornment.

Australian Omar Jasika’s match on Courtroom 3 towards Frenchman Hugo Gaston is suspended because the rain settles in at Melbourne Park.

The matches on Rod Laver Enviornment, Margaret Courtroom Enviornment and John Cain Enviornment will proceed beneath their roofs, however Jasika and the remainder of the gamers on outdoors courts have been compelled off.

It is significantly dangerous information for Jasika, who had dropped the primary set however was swinging momentum his manner within the second sport of the second set.

He held his serve to begin the second body and had six break factors on Gaston’s serve. The sport had simply returned to deuce for the sixth time when the rain compelled them again inside.

It began fairly gently, however it’s actually settling in now and there are a number of lightning strikes now.

There’s rain anticipated immediately and a few darkish clouds are looming over Melbourne Park, so we might see some matches suspended.

Rod Laver Enviornment, Margaret Courtroom Enviornment and John Cain Enviornment have roofs, so matches can proceed in there whatever the climate, however the likes of Australians Omar Jasika, Adam Walton and Aleksandar Vukic could have some issues shuffled round.

Beginning the match a day early provides extra leeway to make up time if we do lose some matches.

There are additionally home windows on these arenas with roofs particularly left apart between the day and night classes to permit matches on outdoors courts to be moved indoors if want be.

China’s Olympic gold medallist and the runner-up from final 12 months’s girls’s singles closing returns to Rod Laver Enviornment for her first-round match towards Romania’s Anca Todoni.

Zheng wins the coin toss and opts to obtain.

The coin was tossed by younger Ivy, who was accompanied by Australian nice John Newcombe, who’s celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his seventh and closing main singles title on the 1975 Australian Open.

There are some clouds round and rain anticipated, so we have now a little bit of a delay after the warm-up as organisers shut the roof on Rod Laver Enviornment.

Weird that they waited till the gamers have been prepared to begin the match to do this.

The opposite 11:30am AEDT starters are subsequent door on Margaret Courtroom Enviornment, with French twentieth seed Arthur Fils taking over Otto Virtanen of Finland.

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The Australian world quantity 180 held serve within the opening sport to shake out some nerves, he is been damaged shortly in his subsequent providing by Frenchman Hugo Gaston, ranked 99 locations increased than him.

And Gaston holds his personal serve to go up 1-3.

Curiously, Jasika and Gaston are each lefties, which does not occur typically.

The 2014 junior US Open winner is on Courtroom 3 towards France’s Hugo Gaston.

Jasika and Gaston are a part of the primary wave of matches: