Five Thoughts from Day 2 at the 2020 Australian Open, where Rafael Nadal, Daniil Medvedev, Dominic Thiem advanced on the men's side and Karolina Pliskova, Simona Halep and Elina Svitolina moved through to the second round in the women's draw.
• After a rain-interrupted first day, Tuesday was an absolute festival of matches. Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic won with ease on Monday; today it was Rafael Nadal’s turn. The top seed made quick work of Bolivia’s Hugo Dellien, a fine shotmaker but an unthreatening one. Nadal has only won this event once—as he’s often reminded—but his game is well-suited for this surface, he is (by his standards) uncommonly healthy, and, significantly, he’s not in the same half of the draw as Federer and Djokovic.