Three minutes a day, knowing about tennis in the world. Hello fans, today is Thursday, January 16, 2025, and welcome to the afternoon newsletter brought to you by "Home of Tennis".

This morning, Beijing time, the fifth day of the 2025 Australian Open tennis season began. In the three women's singles second-round focus matches that ended in the morning, the three Chinese golden flowers played failed to win and lost one after another.

Among them, Wang Yafan lost 2-6 0-6 to No. 9 seed Kasatkina of Russia; Zhang Shuai defeated Kazakhstan's Putintseva six in a row 2-6 1-6; Wang Xiyu fought hard in three sets to lose 3-6 6-3 4-6 to American Navarro. So far, there are no Chinese players in the singles field of this Australian Open.

Despite the singles loss, there was good news in the doubles. In the first round of the Women's Doubles, Yuan Yue/Alexandrova swept away Kava/Zimmerman 6-2 6-1; Guo Hanyu/Panova defeated Cabrera/Preston North End 6-4 7-6(4) to advance to the round of 32. In the previous day's doubles first-round matchup, ninth seeds Zhang Shuai/Muladenovic defeated Kessler/Ruth 5-7 6-3 7-5 to advance to the first round, while Jiang Xinyu/Wang Yafan lost 2-6 5-7 to Slamkova/Tomova.

Serbian Kecmanovic played a powerful role in a high-profile matchup in the second round of the men's singles that ended this morning Beijing time, knocking out 18th seed and Poland's first brother Hurkacz 6-4 6-4 6-2.

Women's Singles: Second seed and Poland's Swiatek swept past Slovakia's Slamkova 6-0 6-2 to face former US Open champion and rising British star Raducanu in the third round, who knocked out American Anisimova 6-3 7-5. Tunisian sister Jabbar and Ukrainian Yastremska also won and advanced to the third round.

Let's take a closer look at the results from yesterday afternoon to evening. In the Men's Singles second round, 10-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic defeated Portuguese teenager Faria 6-1 6-7(4) 6-3 6-2 to advance to the third round. After this match, Djokovic surpassed Swiss king Federer in his 430th Grand Slam singles match to become the record holder for the most Grand Slam singles matches played.

Second seed Zverev eased out Spaniard Martinez 6-1 6-4 6-1 to reach the third round. Spanish star Alcaraz eased to advance with a 6-0 6-1 6-4 sweep past Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka. Sixth seed Ruud of Norway was knocked out 6-2 3-6 6-1 6-4 by Czech rising star Menchik.

Other winners to advance were Ferkina, Draper, Paul, Vukic, Ember, Fes, Leheca, Mahachi, Burges, Bonds, Baena and Feinley.

In Women's Singles: Japan's Naomi Osaka defeated Czech star Mukhova 1-6 6-1 6-3 to advance to the third round and avenge last year's US Open defeat.

Gauff, Schneider, Fernandes, Vekic, Pavlyuchenkova, Badosa and Kostyuk also won and advanced to the third round.

Finally, let's guess and recognize. The picture below shows a player pedaling his bike in the gym after losing. Can you recognize who he is without prompting?

In the last guess, Shanghai's "Liu Yang" golfer gave the correct answer. That's right, the people in the picture are Jiang Xinyu and Wu Fangxian.

(Source: Tennis Home Author: Maverick)