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TENNIS

By The Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — A look at today’s fifth day of the Australian Open tennis championships, not including night matches:

WEATHER: Sunny and warm, high of 90.

ATTENDANCE: Day: 40,724.

WINNERS: Men: No. 2 Roger Federer, No. 3 Novak Djokovic, No. 6 Tomas Berdych, No. 8 Andy Roddick, No. 14 Nicolas Almagro.

Women: No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, No. 6 Francesca Schiavone, No. 8 Victoria Azarenka, No. 9 Li Na, No. 14 Maria Sharapova, No. 23 Svetlana Kuznetsova.

LOSERS: Men: No. 17 Ivan Ljubicic, No. 28 Richard Gasquet, No. 29 Viktor Troicki.

Women: No. 11 Justine Henin, No. 29 Dominika Cibulkova.

STAT OF THE DAY: 57— The number of singles matches Federer has won at the Australian Open, an Open Era record which surpassed Stefan Edberg’s previous mark of 56.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I know what you’re going to ask me already, so I’m just going to start with the answers” — That start of Wozniacki’s five-minute monologue on her match.

On Court Saturday: No. 1 Rafael Nadal, No. 4 Robin Soderling, No. 5 Andy Murray; Women: No. 2 Vera Zvonareva, No. 3 Kim Clijsters, No. 5 Sam Stosur.

Saturday’s Forecast: Mostly sunny, high of 82.

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