- Updates from day four of tennis at Melbourne Park
- Stosur finally bows out as Australian tennis great
- Any thoughts? Email or tweet @mike_hytner
Oh dear, the first “siuuus” heard, and we haven’t even started yet.
In-form 12th seed Elena Rybakina was forced to retire from her match against China’s Zhang Shuai due to injury. The Kazakh player was trailing 6-4, 1-0 when she had to throw in the towel, and that early finish is why we are about to welcome Murray and Daniel onto John Cain Arena on time. That match about to start shortly, with the players just being introduced onto court (Murray gets a huge cheers from what looks like a decent crowd – pretty near to the 50% capacity by my reckoning).