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MELBOURNE Customized Green Bay Packers Jersey , Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Many of the top seeds at the Australian Open struggled through their second round matches on Wednesday, as the tournament's young guns put on a show for the 70,000 fans in attendance at Melbourne Park.


What was supposed to be a routine match up for second seed Caroline Wozniacki, soon turned into the most exciting tussle of the day.


Down one set to 19-year-old Croatian Jana Fett, Wozniacki looked like she would be making an early exit in the tournament.


With clear signs of frustration, including a moment when the Danish star threw her racket on the ground in anger, Wozniacki managed to compose herself and survive multiple match points in the third set to break serve three times and eventually get the win 6-3, 2-6, 5-7.


It was a similar story for Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who was pushed to the limit in a 5-set thriller by 18-year-old Canadian player, Denis Shapovalov.


In the end, the experienced Frenchman hung on to win the battle 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 7-5.


Third seed Grigor Dimitrov also had a grueling 5-set encounter with 22 years old American Mackenzie McDonald.


But the Bulgarian managed to clinch the victory 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 0-6, 8-6, after looking down and out in the fourth set.


Other top contenders like Rafael Nadal, Marin Cilic and Pablo Busta Carreno managed to cruise through their second round clashes, while crowd favorite Nick Kyrgios found things a little more difficult.


There was certainly no problem with the way the Aussie was playing, taking out the contest in four sets.


The issues came with a bizarre series of disruptions off-court, that saw a helicopter halt play, a heckler in the crowd get ejected from the venue after shouting and a problem with the arena's audio speakers that caused feedback issues for both players.


"The guy in the crowd was crazy," Kyrgios said.


"I didn't really know what was going on. [With] the helicopter, that's when I was thinking like, of course it's at my match...there were a lot of things going on there today," he explained after the match.


In the women's bracket, fourth seed Elina Svitolina eased her way to the third round, while world number 7 Jelena Ostapenko was too strong for China's Duan Yingying.


Belinda Bencic crashed out against her little-known Thai opponent Luksika Kumkhum, just 48 hours after defeating last year's finalist Venus Williams, in straight sets.


Frenchwoman Alize Cornet shocked Germany's Julia Goerges in straight sets, while China's 25th seed in the tournament Zhang Shuai bowed out to the Czech Republic's Denisa Allertova in an entertaining back and forth battle.


But the story of the day belonged to 15-year old Ukrainian Marta Olehivna Kostyuk, who became the youngest women to make it into the third round of a Grand Slam in over 20 years, after beating out home town hero Olivia Rogowska.




BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- China will continue to streamline administrative approval and cut red tape to improve business environment, according to a statement released after an executive meeting Wednesday.


Premier Li Keqiang, who chaired the meeting, called for more efforts to remove barriers to market access and lower transaction costs.


Services should be improved while the supervision should be strengthened, said the statement.


All local governments should create healthy business environment for fair competition to enable market players to provide products and services of high quality.

China’s Wu Dajing in action en route to winning the 500-meter short track speed skating final at the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo yesterday.

China claimed two gold medals in short track speed skating at the Asian Winter Games yesterday while Japan won four titles in speed skating.


Wu Dajing, who won silver in the men’s 1,500 meters on Monday, won gold in the men’s 500 meters in a time of 40.764 seconds, edging South Korea’s Seo Yi-ra by .078 seconds. Park Se-yeong was third in 41.182.


“The race was quite difficult,” said Wu, a two-time world champion in the 500. “The South Koreans pressured us a lot over the final two laps and I almost lost my balance on the final lap.”


Wu’s compatriot Zang Yize won gold in the women’s 500, clocking a time of 43.911. Ayuko Ito of Japan was second in 44.236 while Choi Min-jeong of South Korea took bronze in 44.819 after her compatriot Shim Suk-hee got tangled up on the final lap with Fan Kexin of China and both were disqualified.


Nao Kodaira of Japan earned her second gold of the Sapporo Games by beating two-time Olympic champion Lee Sang-hwa of South Korea in the women’s 500 on the long track.


Kodaira is unbeaten in six World Cups this season, and the winner of the 1,000 on Monday. “I wasn’t at my best today, maybe 80 percent of full fitness,” Kodaira said. “But I wanted to race against a strong sprinter and it was good preparation (for the 2018 Winter Olympics).”


Takuro Oda won the men’s 1,000, and Miho Takagi the women’s 1,500.


The Japanese team of Misaki Oshigiri, Nana Takagi, and Ayano Sato cruised to victory in the women’s team pursuit. South Korea was second, and China third.


In cross-country skiing, Japan also captured the women’s 10-kilometer free title through Yuki Kobayashi. Lee Chae-won of South Korea was second, 24.4 seconds back, and Yelena Kolomina of Kazakhstan was third.


Rinat Mukhim won Kazakhstan’s first gold of the games by winning the men’s 15-kilometer free, 4.5 seconds ahead of Naoto Baba of Japan. Akira Lenting, also of Japan, was third.


Elsewhere, the men’s ski jumping event was cancelled to due to high winds.


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