Before the Sharapova-bang: Even the clouds are threatening

MELBOURNE (Ekstra Bladet): It pulls up to a thunder of a tennis match, when Caroline Wozniacki at 05.30 meetings its not right good friend Maria Sharapova in the third round of the Australian Open.

A fight, which you can follow live here on the site.

But also outside the Rod Laver Arena with capacity for 15.000 spectators, threatening heavy clouds.

Bygerne have the last hours swept across Melbourne, which – as the locals say it – can have four seasons in a day. This means that the play on the outer courts was suspended, while there is a rolled roof over the three large levels.

Thus also on the main, Rod Laver Arena, where the dane and the Russian have to fight their battles, when Roger Federer has been finished.

the Game gets slightly slower when the roof is rolled on, but the weather forecast indicates that it rolled back, so Sharapova and Wozniacki are going to play under the open sky with temperatures in the middle twenties.

Both have a lot of fans in the international tennis, so it is a little hard to predict where the majority will place their support.

At the turn, the dane weak favorite, believe it most of the tenniskyndige colleagues in the international press, which Ekstra Bladet has spoken with.

although both players have shown terrific form in the first two rounds, so has dane much more topkampe on the back of last season, and she is today a player of a different caliber than her, the Russian has met before. Their last meeting is back in 2015.

caroline's box cheering after the victory over the Swedish Johanna Larsson. Hopefully they get again something to celebrate in a few hours. Photo: Roger Parker
Caroline Wozniacki is in fact far from the only dane in and around the plant in Melbourne right now.

Frederik Løchte Nielsen is already underway in the men's doubles, and now the two talented juniors, Clara Tauson and Holger Rune, also arrived after juniorturneringen in Traralgon. She with her father, Soren, he with his mother, Aneke.

Furthermore, the coaches Lars Christensen and Kenneth Carlsen country to support them, but because of the training will junior camp will not be present at the stadium.

In caroline's box is the former landsholdsmålmand in football, Thomas Sorensen, as usual, a guest, most often with his family.

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the Winner should be out in a ’Well Party’, as the national likes to call it, when australian Ashleigh Well play.

Earlier in the day she beat Greek Maria Sakkari with 7-5, 6-1 and made the entire 13 serveesser along the way.

the Fight in the fourth round played on Sunday, and it will be with Danish participation, Caroline probably count on more ’aussie, aussie, aussie’ from the stands than ’wozzie, wozzie, wozzie’.

Ten meetings between Wozniacki and Sharapova

2015, Madrid, quarter-final, gravel: Sharapova, 6-1 3-6 6-3

2014, Sæsonfinalen, first round, hardcourt: Wozniacki, 7-6(4) 6-7(5) 6-2

2014, the Us Open, the 4. round, hardcourt: Wozniacki 6-4 2-6 6-2

2013, Indian Wells, final, hardcourt: Sharapova, 6-2 6-2

2012, Miami, semifinal, hardcourt: Sharapova, 4-6 6-2 6-4

2011, Rome, semi-final, gravel: Sharapova, 7-5 6-3

2011, Indian Wells, semi final: Wozniacki, 6-1 6-2

2010, the Us Open, the 4. round: Wozniacki, 6-3 6-4.

2008, Rome, 4. round: Sharapova, 6-4 7-6(3)

2008, Doha, quarter-final, hardcourt: Sharapova, 6-0 6-1

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