Daniil Medvedev plays until 3:40am at Australian Open | The Break

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We’ve got a late finish in 2024 after meddev and Rus saori finished their match at 3:40 a.m. local time we investigate how another all nighter occurred even after the tournament aimed to prevent it and it’s round three action at the Australian Open we’ve got your match rundown the break starts right Now hey everyone I’m Andrew guy you are watching the break this morning denil meddev and Emil Rus svori walked off Court just before 4 a.m. this is the second year in a row we saw a 4:00 a.m. finish down under after the Murray cocona second round went long in 2023

Changes were implemented to try and prevent all nighters for one the Australian Open announced a Sunday start for the first time ever the tournament also announced fewer day session matches on the show courts this year we’ll only have two-day matches on Rod Laver and Margaret Court Arena this would

Hopefully prevent spillover into the 700 p.m. night sessions so why didn’t the plan work work denil and Amil walked on court around 1100 p.m. to play their second round match on Rod labor Arena the late start was mostly due to the matches that led up to theirs the Rod

Laver day session matches of shiant Collins and alarz Sono both went well over 3 hours that combined with some rain delays meant that the night session began about an hour behind schedule with raka and blinkova walking on court around 8:30 p.m. local time that match finished with a 2220 final set tie break

After 2 hours and 40 6 minutes the third straight Marathon match of the day so are the late finishes preventable after all John mackenro claimed that starting the tournament earlier was a way to sell more tickets the pros on the other hand welcomed the change as it meant more

Rest in the early rounds but with the night session still starting at 7:00 p.m. both night matches would have to finish in well under 2 hours if we don’t want to go past midnight and is that really even possible so maybe the sweeping schedule changes didn’t work to

Prevent late finishes so should the night sessions in Mel begin at 6:00 p.m. instead of 7: should the day session begin earlier or are late finishes just a part of our sport let us know down below two rounds down five more to go until we’ve got our champion here are

Today’s third round matches you don’t want to miss two resurgent women will face off to begin the day as Amanda Ana Sova faces Paul Bosa at 700 p.m. Eastern both women are back from extended breaks and are playing very well down under at 8:00 p.m. eastern time defending champ

Arena SA faces leio Sano of Ukraine Ben Shelton and Taylor Fritz will represent for the American men as they face Adrien manarino and Fabio marzan respectively later tonight Koko goof will face fellow American Alicia parks for a spot in the fourth round the big hitting Parks is

Playing in her first ever Aussie open main draw and a win over golf would be the biggest of her career and finally Novak jokovic will kick off the night session as he faces Thomas eer when Thomas won his first ever ATP ranking point he’s celebrated by posting this

Yes that’s the Gap in points he had between his own ranking and novaks at the time today the Gap is a little bit smaller probably won’t make it any easier to beat the goat but we’ll be watching regardless tennis Channel’s Australian Open coverage begins daily at

5:00 p.m. Eastern with TC live we’ll see you tomorrow