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Jannik Sinner has made his way through the new upgraded tunnel on Rod Laver, which looks like a slightly discombobulating hall of mirrors, and he’s warming up against the French left-hander Hugo Gaston. Also getting going on Margaret Court: Katie Boulter against Belinda Bencic, and Boulter is already facing break points in the opening game.
Venus Williams’s Australian Open has come to an end. After her narrow defeat in the singles on Sunday, when she became the oldest woman to play in the event at the age of 45, she’s now been knocked out of the doubles. Venus, playing alongside Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova, lost 7-6, 6-4 to France’s Elsa Jacquemot and Colombia’s Emiliana Arango. The way she was talking after her singles loss, though, this isn’t the last Melbourne has seen of her … but one player who’s just said goodbye for the last time is Gael Monfils, who’s been ousted in a near four-hour marathon, 6-7, 7-5, 6-4, 7-5, by the Australian qualifier Dane Sweeny, who’s lying on his back on the Kia Arena, as he soaks in his first ever grand slam main draw win. Monfils has already announced, like Stan Wawrinka, that this will be his final year on the tour.
