Tennis-Australian Open order of play - day one

MELBOURNE, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Order of play on the mainshowcourts at the Australian Open on Monday (play starts at 0000GMT on all courts, prefix denotes seeding):Rod Laver ArenaOlga Puchkova (Russia) v 2-Maria Sharapova (Russia)Chang Kai-chen (Taiwan) v 9-Samantha Stosur (Australia)1-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) v Paul-Henri Mathieu (France)From 0800Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) v 8-Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia)13-Ana...

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Golf-U.S. PGA Tour Sony Open scores

Jan 13 (Infostrada Sports) - Scores from the U.S. PGA Tour Sony Open at the par-70 course on Saturday in Honolulu, Hawaii193 Russell Henley (U.S.) 63 63 67Scott Langley (U.S.) 62 66 65196 Tim Clark (South Africa) 64 66 66197 Scott Gardiner (Australia) 68 64 65Charles Howell III (U.S.) 66 64 67198 Matt Jones (Australia) 66 68 64Danny Lee (New Zealand) 66 66 66Pat Perez (U.S.) 68 63 67Chris Kirk (U.S.)...

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Tennis-Tomic and Stosur carry Australian hopes in Melbourne

MELBOURNE, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Take a walk around the Grand Slam Oval at Melbourne Park and it is easy to see why Australia has such high expectations of tennis success.A long semi-circle of bronze busts of the likes of Rod Laver, Margaret Court, Roy Emerson and Evonne Goolagong bear witness to an era when Australian winners at majors were the rule rather than the exception.Those expectations have...

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