Five things we learned from the Australian Open

Five things we gained from the Australian Open, the main Grand Slam competition of the tennis season: 

Men's tennis needs a contention 

The world is awed and astonished by Novak Djokovic's strength yet it isn't much fun watching him trample over his rivals on numerous occasions. 

The wins continue wanting the Serb and his savage late treatment of Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray, in Sunday's uneven last, underline his matchless quality after what was a prevailing 2015. 

Djokovic's primary danger is currently time, as he seeks after Federer's untouched record of 17 Grand Slam titles, and, he says, the karmic strengths that keep his feet on the ground. 

"You can get a major slap from karma soon," he cautioned. 

Be that as it may, tennis is a game of two players and Djokovic needs a genuine contender over the net to make his matches really convincing. John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, Federer and Nadal are contentions which got the creative energy and made tennis fans tune in. 

Djokovic clinically disassembling Murray 6-1 in the main arrangement of a Grand Slam last isn't exactly the same. 

Serena's not a robot 

Serena Williams has come to command ladies' tennis so totally that in the ladies' last, few gave Angelique Kerber any trust by any means. 

Be that as it may, in a hypnotizing two hours and eight minutes at Rod Laver Arena, the German perplexed all desires as she gave the world number one her first annihilation after six past triumphs in the Melbourne last. 

It topped a ladies' opposition that was loaded with dramatization, with world number two Simona Halep thumped out in the first round and Naomi Osaka and Zhang Shuai getting a charge out of a fantasy competition alongside Johanna Konta, who turned into the primary British lady since 1983 to achieve a Grand Slam semi-last. 

Kerber's win additionally set up the ladies' season pleasantly as, alongside turning into the game's freshest Grand Slam champion, it exited Williams with work to do to win the Grand Slam title that will put her level with Steffi Graf's Open-period record of 22. 

The American seemed tormented by desires as she missed the mark regarding a logbook year Grand Slam a year ago, and she appeared to be practically mitigated when her odds of another endeavor at a decisive victory were passed up Kerber. 

"As much as I might want to be a robot, I'm most certainly not. I attempt to. In any case, you know, I do as well as can be expected," Williams said. "I attempt to win each and every time I venture out there, each and every point, except practically I can't do it." 

Nadal's issues haven't left 

We didn't see quite a bit of Rafael Nadal in Melbourne, however the truth he was packaged out in the first round does not foreshadow well for the 14-time Grand Slam champion. 

Nadal persevered through a hopeless season in 2015 however there were indications of life when he recouped to end the year on a positive note. 

Be that as it may, 2016 hasn't began well for Nadal, who was whipped 6-1, 6-2 by Novak Djokovic in the Doha last and after that was beaten 7-6 (8/6), 4-6, 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 by Fernando Verdasco in his first match of the Australian Open. 

The competition has already been hazardous for Nadal, who has been hit by damage more than once in Melbourne, and the match-up with his kindred Spanish left-hander is an extreme one, delivering a great semi-last in 2009. 

However, it appears Nadal remains no place close to the structure that made him the fear of the courts for such a large number of years. 

Australian legend Rod Laver said all that needed to be said when he watched: "Possibly his forehand doesn't appear to be comparable to it was three and four years back. That overwhelming topspin, that speed he put on the ball. You know, the ball hops; he hit it profound; he was in all out attack mode constantly. It just appears that he's not exactly the same when he's hitting that shot. It's all the more keeping it in play, not attempting to be truly assaulting." 

Tennis has a debasement issue 

It wasn't brand new information to those aware of present circumstances, yet to others it came like a rocket: tennis matches are gone after by match-fixers, and players who have been in the main 50 have over and over fallen under suspicion without confronting activity, as indicated by a stunner report by the BBC and BuzzFeed. 

It started a whirlwind of disclosures and allegations, with Djokovic among the players to affirm a match-altering approach at a very early stage in his profession. 

The report was at first welcomed with scarcely camouflaged disturbance by tennis powers, however as the contention snowballed they astutely made a move and declared an autonomous survey of the game's under-flame defilement battling body. 

Tennis in this manner utilized a harming outrage to paint itself in a positive light, dissimilar to different games which have gotten to be buried in embarrassment as of late. 

It's just an amusement 

A solid measurement of viewpoint was offered by Andy Murray, who disregarded his most recent Australian Open last thrashing — his fifth — with unresponsiveness. 

The reason was that Murray has been confronting immeasurably significant issues over the past fortnight, with his first child in transit and his dad in-law breaking down at Rod Laver Arena in the competition's first week. 

He summed it up ahead of schedule in the competition when he expressed immovably: "For me, my tyke is more essential to me, and my wife is more imperative to me, than a tennis mat