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The Australian Open has increased prize money to an historic high of $40 million. Men and women singles winners will each get $3.1m while a first round loser will receive $34,500

http://www.ausopen.com/en_AU/news/ar...open_2015.html

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01-09-2015 , 12:12 AM

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Ben Rothenberg ‏@BenRothenberg 9m9 minutes ago

Defending champ John Isner pulls out of Auckland, citing fatigue from reaching Hopman Cup final. Gael Monfils out, too, for person reasons.

I dislike Isner so so so much.

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01-09-2015 , 01:13 AM

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@vrcsports Wozniacki: 0/13 on break point chances so far. BZS serving at *4-3, 40-40. This is not a typo.

Nishikori gonna get a slam this year if he stays healthy. You can put me on that train now.

Oh and in other news Grandma Krumm may never die.

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01-09-2015 , 01:59 AM

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Nishikori and Dolgopolov are about to play doubles vs the oddly dressed man Dimitrov and some guy with a lot of Ks in his name that is not Kukushkin.

ATP doubles Brisbane for those of you that want to tune in. Supposed to start 15-30 minutes from now.

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01-09-2015 , 02:20 AM

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cornut beat aga 64 26 75

benoit down a set and break to jerzy

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Come on Benoît! Fight for France at least :-( ...

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01-09-2015 , 02:33 AM

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Donna Vekic ‏@DonnaVekic 3m3 minutes ago

Really tough match but nice to get the first win of the season!! Idemo!!!

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01-09-2015 , 12:16 PM

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Nice to see Venus in a final.

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01-09-2015 , 12:34 PM

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Against someone who has yet to beat her in her career either. Woz the betting favorite though, should be a good one.

I heard Azarenka wanted a WC into Sydney and they said no. Interesting unless they had already dished them out.

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01-09-2015 , 01:05 PM

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Nishikori/Raonic and Fed/Dimitrov this evening in Brisbane. Nice doubleheader.

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01-09-2015 , 01:12 PM

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I dislike Isner so so so much.

Don't understand why this would make you hate him even more. I mean he goes farther in a tournament than he might've expected, and thus he doesn't need to play another warmup. No reason to tire himself out before the Open.

If there is an American to dislike, it's Querrey. He's probably a nice guy, but he's a total gutless loser with tons of WIL.

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01-09-2015 , 07:30 PM

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Querrey has a loveable derp face though. Try being Aussie, all of our players are just colossal douchebags.

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01-09-2015 , 08:28 PM

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Auckland ATP Draw: http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2015/301/mds.pdf

THE PREMIERE OF GOATBIS!!!!

Nadal apparently had WC offers to play after his Doha exit but has turned them down. Going into the AO with little prep unless you count his doubles play.

Turningham you think Kyrgios is a douchebag? I think he's pretty awesome and comes more across as a kid enjoying himself rather than a self entitled ******* like Tomic does. As for Isner he is a big whining baby, can't stand the guy. Querrey isn't even worth wasting the time to write his name, completely useless. They deserve each other.

And I'm pretty sure that photo above shows Vekic has some tiny tiny nerps.

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01-09-2015 , 09:39 PM

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I just can't like Kyrgios. I played him a few times as a junior and he had a real attitude problem. With that being said, I have huge respect the hard work he's put in though - did not expect him to do nearly as well as he has and I like that about him. But obviously my image of him now is semi tainted by him from before.

Agree with what you said about Tomic. Just no redeeming features at all.

There are a select few tennis players coming out of Aus that I support. The problem is we kind of suck too. We have a lot of young talent but otherwise there's not much for us to support.

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01-09-2015 , 09:43 PM

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What's up with this Kokkinakis kid? He got the game to rise or just another young one who has pretty poor fashion sense? Haven't seen a lick of him.

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01-09-2015 , 09:56 PM

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What's up with this Kokkinakis kid? He got the game to rise or just another young one who has pretty poor fashion sense? Haven't seen a lick of him.

He played a lot in my age group but I never ran into him so all I've gotten from him is from watching him on TV. He looks pretty good though. It's pretty tough to gauge but definitely reckon he's got top 50 potential.

He backs himself in big points too, only problem is he kind of still plays like a junior. Will just ignore constructing a point some of the time an can occasionally just do something unnecessary on a big point.

Once he matures out I'm expecting big things.

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01-09-2015 , 10:04 PM

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when kyrgios was a junior, everything I ever read about him was basically "big serve, big game, tons of talent, really really full of himself."

I first saw him play at AO qualies 2013 against klahn when he was ranked in the 800s. I thought he was legit but it would take some time for his game to develop. At the end of 2013 he was ranked inside the top 200.

I think kyrgios seems like a decent guy tho. I saw him a little at the IPTL and he looked like a little kid at a birthday party.

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01-09-2015 , 10:09 PM

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I honestly don't know if Camila tries to look like a prostitute or is aware of it

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01-09-2015 , 10:13 PM

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That first part sounds pretty accurate.

Kid has wicked talent - no denying it. And whilst he's not my favourite person in the world I'm definitely rooting for the guy. Australian mens tennis needs a saviour at the moment (I mean all our hopes are lying in lolGrothaments at the moment). Hopefully this guy can eventually just cement himself into the top 20 or 10.

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01-09-2015 , 10:18 PM

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I can only imagine how many guys on the tour try to approach Camila at a joint event and then her crazy dad walks up and blows that all to hell.

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01-09-2015 , 11:02 PM

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My fandom doesn't care about logic! I hate Isner and have always hated Isner, so everything he does is wrong to me. 😼😾😼

That being said, as far as American tennis goes, it's Jack Sock all day baby.

Nishikori/Raonic about to get started (30 minutes or so), followed by Fed/Baby Fed (although no one calls him that anymore).

And I'm with whoever that was that was busting nuts on Goatbis returning. Get it get it Gulbis.

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01-09-2015 , 11:42 PM

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Wozniacki 0-6 lifetime now vs Venus. Rather terrible quality until the end all around to be frank but it was super windy. Caro clueless with her tactics certainly didn't help.

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01-10-2015 , 12:55 AM

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Caro should really be beating Venus at this stage. Especially now that her serve is a little bit stronger than it used to be.

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01-10-2015 , 12:55 AM

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Think that win moves Venus up to 6th oldest player to win on the women's tour?

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01-10-2015 , 01:51 AM

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Kei and Milos going 3. Not impressed by Raonic at all, simply another servebot with a rather low career ceiling. Kei all but gave him the 2nd set to stay in it but that's what it's like to play guys like this. Get into a tiebreak, win one key point and ship the set.