Melbourne, Australia (Sports Network) - Former champions Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer highlighted Monday's first-round winners at the first Grand Slam event of the year -- the Australian Open. The second-seeded Nadal cruised past Ukrainian-born American qualifier Alex Kuznetsov 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in 1 hour, 46 minutes, while a third-seeded Federer leveled Russian qualifier Alexander Kudryavtsev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 in 1 hour, 38 minutes for his 60th match win at Melbourne Park. Nadal played with his right knee heavily taped on Monday. "I was sitting on a chair in the hotel, I felt like a crack on the knee -- really strange," Nadal said. "I stand up. I felt the knee a little bit strange. I moved the...
↧