{"id":25233,"date":"2016-01-19T12:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T12:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=25233"},"modified":"2016-01-19T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T12:29:30","slug":"australian-open-rafael-nadal-venus-williams-suffer-first-round-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=25233","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2016: Rafael Nadal, Venus Williams suffer first-round exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-14934\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rafael-nadal-french-open.jpg\" alt=\"rafael nadal french open\" width=\"256\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rafael-nadal-french-open.jpg 256w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rafael-nadal-french-open-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/>Melbourne:<\/strong>&nbsp;In a big upset, Fernando Verdasco stunned Rafael Nadal 7-6(6), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 in four hours and 41 minutes in the first round of the Australian Open, on Tuesday night. It is the first time in 11 visits that Nadal has suffered a first-round exit at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the women&rsquo;s section at the Open, Johanna Konta shocked No.8 seed Venus Williams, 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>In other matches, No.3 seed Garbi&ntilde;e Muguruza eased past Estonia&#8217;s Anett Kontaveit, 6-4, 6-0, while 15th-seeded Madison Keys downed Zarina Diyas, 7-6(5), 6-1. No.11 seed Timea Bacsinszky and No.21 seed Ekaterina Makarova also moved through, each in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, World No.133 Zhang Shuai dismantled No.2 seed Simona Halep on Margaret Court Arena, 6-4, 6-3, in 78 minutes. Zhang will next play Hobart International champion Aliz&eacute; Cornet who beat Bojana Jovanovski, winning, 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-14934\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rafael-nadal-french-open.jpg\" alt=\"rafael nadal french open\" width=\"256\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rafael-nadal-french-open.jpg 256w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rafael-nadal-french-open-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/>Melbourne:<\/strong>&nbsp;In a big upset, Fernando Verdasco stunned Rafael Nadal 7-6(6), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 in four hours and 41 minutes in the first round of the Australian Open, on Tuesday night. It is the first time in 11 visits that Nadal has suffered a first-round exit at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the women&rsquo;s section at the Open, Johanna Konta shocked No.8 seed Venus Williams, 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13594,1444,466,562,12894,2579],"class_list":["post-25233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis","tag-australian-open-2016","tag-fernando-verdasco","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-tennis-news","tag-venus-williams"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Australian Open 2016: Rafael Nadal, Venus Williams suffer first-round exit - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=25233\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australian Open 2016: Rafael Nadal, Venus Williams suffer first-round exit - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Melbourne:&nbsp;In a big upset, Fernando Verdasco stunned Rafael Nadal 7-6(6), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 in four hours and 41 minutes in the first round of the Australian Open, on Tuesday night. 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