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It has been the event of upsets to date at Melbourne Park, with many of the top-10 seeds from the lads’s and ladies’s attracts despatched packing early.

As we head into the second week, solely 4 of the lads’s high 10, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Novak Djokovic, Andrey Rublev and Holger Rune stay within the draw.

The ladies’s draw has simply three of the highest 10 remaining, with Jessica Pegula, Caroline Garcia and Aryna Sabalenka nonetheless in motion.

There was a variety of speak surrounding the balls at this 12 months’s Australian Open, and seven-time grand slam champ Mats Wilander believes they’re partly responsible for the string of upsets.

”Perhaps the balls, you’d wish to suppose are heavy which means they’re mushy and so they get fluffy in a short time. And when you’ve a ball that is full of life, the gamers that may not have that absolute nice really feel like Novak, Federer or Murray, perhaps it takes that a part of the sport out,” he advised Eurosport.

“The sport that’s performed with just a little bit of additional spin, a recreation that’s performed just a little bit greater, generally sliced serve, as a result of balls react to the ultimate contact of those geniuses of our sport. However the widespread participant who works actually exhausting won’t have the identical really feel however they get away with it when the balls are heavier and fluffier.

“They’re hitting the ball so exhausting and anybody can beat anybody lately. It was the highest 10 however now it is the highest 50 that may beat anybody.”