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She continues the defence of her title against Kristyna Pliskova of the czech republic. I played once against her, i think a few years ago, and i know that she has a great serve as well. Yeah, i am looking forward to playing against her. Kerber against pliskova is the second match on the rod laver arena. At the moment, canadas Eugenie Bouchard is playing Coco Vandeweghe of the united states. It is currently one set all. Bouchard is a break up in the third set. And still to come, the former champion Stan Wawrinka plays Viktor Troicki of serbia. In the evening session, Ashleigh Barty will have the support of the home crowd against mona barthel of germany. And then its Roger Federer against tomas berdych, who havent met this early in a tournament since the Beijing Olympics of 2008. Federer is still feeling his way back to fitness after his knee injury. If got to if got to g if got to s be honest. I didnt play a lot, to be honest. I didnt say anything, it put it that way. He was playing at