Saving face

Alberto Martin couldn’t save the match, so he saved face. The veteran clay-courter finally held his service Tuesday in a first-round match against Andy Murray to avoid a triple bagel.

• Alberto Martin couldn’t save the match, so he saved face. The veteran clay-courter finally held his service Tuesday in a first-round match against Andy Murray to avoid a triple bagel. Martin was trailing 6-0, 6-0, 5-0 when he prevented Murray from becoming the first player in the Open Era to win a match with all zeroes at the Australian Open.

“You probably get one chance in your lifetime to win a match 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. I can’t remember it happening,” said Murray. The 19-year-old Scot said he spoke briefly to Martin at the net at the end of the match. “I just said, ‘Bad luck’. That was pretty much it,” Martin said. “There’s not too much you can say.”

Missing the flight

• Two sets down and facing two break points, David Nalbandian thought his Australian Open campaign was all but over. Then came his opponent’s meltdown. Playing on an outside court, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic had the measure of Nalbandian in their first round match, winning the first set in a 5-point tiebreak, the second 6-4 and establishing a 5-2 lead in the third.

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“I was on the plane back home” at that point, said the 8th-seeded Argentinian. But the oppressive heat dropped heavily on Tipsarevic letting Nalbandian climb back to win the third set and sweep the fourth 6-0 before the Serb retired in the fourth game of the Fifth.

Hot Memories

• Three-time Australian Open champion Martina Hingis made short work of her first-round opponent in the air-conditioned comfort of a roof-covered Vodafone Arena. After her 6-0, 6-2 win over Nathalie Dechy, Hingis had a chance to reflect on her championship match here in 2002 against Jennifer Capriati in a sweltering Rod Laver Arena, when Hingis virtually melted down and lost in three sets to the American.

“I was just exhausted,” Hingis said of her finals loss in 2002, the second year in a row she lost to Capriati in the final in Australia. “Some ladies in the locker room (on Tuesday) … they were like almost joking with me: ‘Does that remind you of something?’ I’m like, yeah, right.”

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