Australian Open 2017 Day 6

Highlights from Day 6 on Saturday at the 2017 Australian Open in Melbourne.

Author:
SI Staff
Publish date:
Jan 21, 2017

Australian Open 2017 Day 6

Serena Williams

"I'm not a person who goes out and serves a thousand balls a week. Sometimes I go days and I don't serve at all. I think it's really just natural. I don't do a lot of work specifically on my serve. I do work on my serve, but I don't work on it as much as one would think, because I just think, for me, it's just a really natural stroke."

Ekaterina Makarova

Jennifer Brady

Johanna Konta

"I was very happy with I guess the way I was able to assert myself from the very beginning, also tighten up my game a bit as that first set went on, and just maintain my level to the very end. Against someone like Caroline, she's not going to give it to you. You really do have to earn it and win it till the very last point. I'm just very happy I was able to keep that pressure on."

Caroline Wozniacki

Gael Monfils

Rafael Nadal

"Doesn't matter how you arrive to the second week. If you are not injured, the most important thing is be there. I did. I won three great matches. Especially this last one is a very important one for me. I hope to be ready. As I say before, my body was good during the whole match. Let's see how I wake up tomorrow. But I believe that I'm going to be fine."

Milos Raonic

Gael Monfils

Milos Raonic

Timea Bacsinszky

Karolina Pliskova

"It was much about me still. She was the one who was more aggressive today, going for the shots. She was playing really fast, really well, I think. Also deserved to win. But unlucky in the end for her."

Jelena Ostapenko

Richard Gasquet

Grigor Dimitrov

Daria Gavrilova

"Well, to be honest, I was really concerned about how I was going to feel on that center court. I was a bit nervous. I was telling my coaches, God, I feel like I'm playing first round all over again, like the same nerves. Yeah, I was probably thinking too much of what happened last year. I don't think it was actually a good thing for me. But in the end I managed to not do what I did last year."

Nicole Gibbs