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So after watching last weeks Australian Open Final where Novak Djokovic won as predicted by Stan james betting, I still cant get over the mesmerising intensity, passion and belief that both Nadal and Djokovic played with in every single point in the gruelling six hour match that took them to the brink of exhaustion.

Sam Stosur’s Australian Open campaign was ended unceremoniously as the home-favourite was dumped out in the first-round at the hands of Sorana Cirstea.

Caroline Wozniacki’s defeat to Kim Clijsters in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park means the Dane will no longer be at the top of the world rankings when the standings are updated after the opening Grand Slam of 2012.
Wozniacki has spent 67 weeks as world number one, despite not having won one the sport’s top four major live tennis  tournaments in her career.
Her next attempt will be in the French Open later in the season where she reached the quarter-finals in 2010.

Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki has parted company with her Spanish coach Ricardo Sanchez.

The 21-year-old Dane only hired Sanchez two months ago but has decided he is not the right man to work with after losing in the quarter-finals of the recent Australian Open to Kim Clijsters.

There is little doubting that Britain's Andy Murray is quite clearly a world class tennis player, but, frustratingly enough for his fans, there is still one factor preventing him from making the top spot in men's tennis his own, and seems also to be holding him back from securing that maiden Grand Slam victory.

It's no secret that in the past Andy Murray has proved to the world that he doesn't possess the sort of mental toughness or ability to compete until the end of a tough five set match with the likes of Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, but over the past fortnight, the Scot has proved that all of this has changed, with Murray now fully deserving of being regarded as one of the very best players in the world after an extremely impressive performance against Djokovic in a five hour, five set semi-final thriller.

The world of men's tennis has been in a pretty good place for quite some time now, but all the evidence of the past fortnight in Australia seems to hint at the fact that the sport has been propelled to another level entirely.

Martina Navratilova knew a thing or two about winning so it came as no great surprise that the all-time great had little sympathy for Caroline Wozniacki when discovering the world number one was knocked out of the 2012 Australian Open.

The Dane won a creditable six WTA Tour titles last year but a fourth-round defeat to defending champion Kim Clijsters means a Grand Slam still eludes her and she can expect to lose her chart-topping status in Melbourne.

Roger Federer was in ominous form as he convincingly beat Juan Del Potro in straight sets 6-4 6-3 6-2 to advance to the Australian Open semi-finals.

The Third seed needed just under two hours to dispose of the Argentinian, who had been tipped by many to trouble the four time winner of the tournament.

The 16-time Grand Slam winner broke early in all three sets and Del Potro, who beat Federer in the US open final in 2009, had no answer to the variety of Federer's play.

In a sensational Australian Open Final where Novak Djokovic eventually ran out the winner after just under 6 gruelling hours of play, Rafael Nadal admitted he was happy with his 'best loss' after the 5 let loss in Melbourne.
The Stan James free bets couldn't pin down a winner for this match and it was clear to see why as Nadal went down 5-7 6-4 6-2 6-7 7-5 in the longest Grand Slam final on record.