{"id":720655,"date":"2026-06-07T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720655\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:24:08","slug":"2026-australian-open-day-3-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720655\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Australian Open: Day 3 wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Connor Munnings<\/a> on June 7, 2026<\/p>\n

It was a big day of men\u2019s singles action at the 2026 Australian Open, with some intriguing results setting up tantalising prospects in the knockout rounds.<\/p>\n

Dual Commonwealth Games Gold medallist Aaron Wilson survived an almighty scare after losing his first sectional game against Capalaba\u2019s Tim Hale.<\/p>\n

However, he was able to regroup and still qualify for the knockout stages.<\/p>\n

At Musgrave Hill, 2015 Australian Open Men\u2019s singles champion Aaron Teys continued his good form to make it to the knockouts.<\/p>\n

Teys\u2019 fellow Jackaroos in Nathan Black and Ben Twist also enjoyed prosperous days to progress through their sections.<\/p>\n

2024 Men\u2019s Singles runner-up Cohen Litfin booked his place in the knockouts as he looks to go one better and claim the title.<\/p>\n

New Zealand representatives Ali Forsyth, Keanu Darby, Shannon McIlroy and Aiden Takarua all finished on top of their section, while World Bowls Champion Adam Mckeown from Ireland also qualified.<\/p>\n

2019 Pairs champion and 2024 Fours champion Ray Pearse was sublime in his section to go through undefeated, while former Jackaroo Matthew Lucas had a decisive day to qualify for the next round.<\/p>\n

Para-Jackaroo Chris Flavel navigated his way through his section, while rising Tasmania star Codi Marshall had a dominant day to advance.<\/p>\n

2023 Fours finalist Scott De Jongh and 2024 Over 60s Pairs champion Terry Warder also both finished on top of their section.<\/p>\n

The first bagel of the tournament was recorded, with ACT young gun Logan Waters securing a 21-0 victory over Tasmania\u2019s Ross Taylor to advance through to the next round.<\/p>\n

Other notable qualifiers were Brad Pavey, Hayden Oster, Brendan Wilson, Kepler Wessels, Mitch Sidebottom, Tyson Wilson, Cameron Keenan, Corey Hicks, Lee Greening and Malaysia\u2019s Amirul Danial Abdul Rahim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Connor Munnings on June 7, 2026 It was a big day of men\u2019s singles action at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[201650,64,63,6571,44],"class_list":["post-720655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-2026-australian-open","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}