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Posted at 11:48 p.m., Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Tennis: Australian Open at a glance

Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — A look at Wednesday's play at the Australian Open tennis championships:

WEATHER: Sunny, high of 84 degrees.

ATTENDANCE: Day: 45,262.

WINNERS: Men: No. 2 Roger Federer, No. 3 and defending champion Novak Djokovic, No. 11 David Ferrer, No. 19 Marin Cilic, No. 20 Tomas Berdych, No. 21 Tommy Robredo, No. 23 Mardy Fish, No. 26 Marat Safin.

Women: No. 1 Jelena Jankovic, No. 3 Dinara Safina, No. 5 Ana Ivanovic, No. 7 Vera Zvonareva, No. 10 Nadia Petrova, No. 15 Alize Cornet, No. 19 Daniela Hantuchova, No. 25 Kaia Kanepi, No. 26 Ai Sugiyama, No. 29 Alisa Kleybanova.

LOSERS: Men: No. 10 David Nalbandian, No. 28 Paul-Henri Mathieu.

STAT OF THE DAY: 10 — minutes between Yen-hsun Lun's match points, during which he fended off six breakpoints in his last service game against Nalbandian.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I'm going to go for it. Whatever comes, comes." — Safin on his third-round rematch against Federer, who he beat in the semifinals in 2005 en route to the Australian Open title.