No 2 seed defeats Wang Xinyu after 19 double faultsTauson beats Kontaveit, Muguruza falls to CornetAs Aryna Sabalenka stepped up to the baseline for her
Australian Open second-round match against Wang Xinyu of
China, it did not take her long to realise this would be yet another day without her serve.
The double faults came immediately and with great variety: slightly long, barely wide, back fence, photo pit. She served six in her opening service game and she had nine after her second. So predictable were her troubles, the stats keepers were ready: at one point in the first set Sabalenka had attempted 117 second serves in 2022; 57 had ended in a double fault.