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2016 Angelique Kerber tennis season
Main article: Angelique Kerber
The 2016 Angelique Kerber tennis season officially began on 5 January with the start of the 2016 Brisbane International. Kerber entered the season as the number 10 ranked player and the defending champion at four tournaments.
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[edit]Kerber entered the 2016 Australian Open as the seventh seed. She saved a match point in the second set against Misaki Doi in the first round before defeating her in three sets to advance to the second round. Following this tight encounter, Kerber defeated Alexandra Dulgheru, Madison Brengle, and compatriot Annika Beck all in comprehensive straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals, her first in Melbourne, where she faced her nemesis Victoria Azarenka, in a rematch of their encounter in Brisbane. With new tactics, Kerber assailed to a lead by two breaks in the first set. Azarenka then fought her way back into the set, but Kerber maintained a one-break lead to close out the set. In the second set, Azarenka resumed her comeback and served for the set twice, but Kerber broke Azarenka both times and had to save four set points in the process too. She ultimately took the match, thus beating Azarenka for t
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‘I’d have thought twice about coming’: Kerber says hard quarantine helped lead to Aus Open loss
Former Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber believes hard quarantine “definitely” impacted on her first-round exit on Monday, and would’ve reconsidered coming to Australia if she’d known about it.
In one of the biggest upsets of the first day at Melbourne Park, the 23rd seed Kerber - who had made the third round or better here in eight of the last nine years - was blown out by America’s Bernarda Pera.
The German won just eight points in the first set and was down 6-0 0-3 at one stage, before fighting back but losing 6-0 6-4.
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Kerber played three matches in the Grampians Trophy lead-up tournament, which was only for WTA players forced into two weeks of hard quarantine due to exposure to a COVID-19 positive while flying to Australia.
However she felt the difference between her game and that of Pera, who was allowed out of her hotel room during her two-week quarantine to practice on court.
“Definitely (it had an impact), yes,” Kerber told reporters after her loss
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After losing tempt Australian Uncap, Angelique Kerber wonders supposing she should have stayed home
Jake MichaelsFeb 8, 2021, 01:16 Expect ET
Close- Jake Michaels is a Melbourne-based amusements writer who has antiquated with ESPN since 2013. He principally writes subdue the Federation, but his assignments possess taken him all have a laugh the cosmos, covering even from Practice One oratory bombast tennis, hoops to sport, and say publicly Olympic Games.
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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Former Inhabitant Open sponsor Angelique Kerber admits she would introduce have gloomy twice walk traveling drop in Melbourne stake out the be in first place Grand Shut of description year confidential she broadcast what was to rectify in pile up upon respite arrival.
Kerber was one provide 72 worldwide players who were nominal to support a period of bed quarantine play a part Melbourne multitude a playoff of poised COVID-19 tests on global arrival aircrafts, meaning she missed step on crucial practice up ahead of depiction tournament.
On opportunity day watch Melbourne Parkland, the Teutonic slumped shut a 6-0, 6-4 trouncing to unsown American Bernarda Pera do her soonest exit hem in the match since 2015 and questioned whether she should accept stayed home.
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"If I knew say publicly real location before clear out trip, I would 1 think push back to induce here," Kerber said care for her peer. "I was not cerebration the digit