Chris Almeida: So here we are on the first Wednesday of the Australian Open and Rafa Nadal, who won the tournament last year, is out. He lost 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 to McKenzie MacDonald who, if I'm being totally honest, I've never heard of before. But this is not really out of nowhere. We knew coming in that kind of early exit was a possibility.
Coming into this event, Nadal was going through perhaps the worst stretch of tennis in his entire career. So we weren't expecting him necessarily to be in the final or to win the tournament, but still, seeing him lose in the second round in straight sets is always a little surprising.