Andy Murray wrote another remarkable chapter in his career by winning his longest-ever match to beat Thanasi Kokkinakis in the second round of the Australian Open.
The contest lasting five hours and 45 minutes finished at 4.05am and ended a day that saw defeats for second seeds Casper Ruud and Ons Jabeur and more hamstring concern for Novak Djokovic.
Dan Evans moved safely through to round three 15 hours before Murray completed victory to set up a clash with fifth seed Andrey Rublev.
Picture of the day
ANDY. MURRAY. ?
Madness in Melbourne!@andy_murray • @wwos • @espn • @eurosport • @wowowtennis • #AusOpen • #AO2023 pic.twitter.com/NaHx1FkJnu
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 19, 2023
Tweet of the day
10 days between.. ciao ao, can be proud of the efforts made to be here. back to it. pic.twitter.com/aM7fButcFH
— Emma Raducanu (@EmmaRaducanu) January 18, 2023
Not so lucky day
A perfect shot from the Australian Open bird ??
Alexander Zverev will be hoping he gets some good luck after that ?#AusOpen | @AlexZverev pic.twitter.com/Bi1TDcfz1q
— Eurosport (@eurosport) January 19, 2023
Alexander Zverev won the first set against Michael Mmoh but went on to lose after this unfortunate interruption.
Fallen seeds
Women: Ons Jabeur (2), Veronika Kudermetova (9), Anett Kontaveit (16), Liudmila Samsonova (18), Irina Camelia Begu (27)
Men: Casper Ruud (2), Taylor Fritz (8), Alexander Zverev (12), Pablo Carreno Busta (14), Diego Schwartzman (23), Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (30)
Who’s up next?
Women’s top seed Iga Swiatek will look to avoid the raft of upsets against Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa while third seed Jessica Pegula plays Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk.
Stefanos Tsitsipas, now the highest-ranked man left in the draw, takes on Tallon Griekspoor, and Mackenzie McDonald will look to follow up his upset of Rafael Nadal by taking out 31st seed Yoshihito Nishioka.
