MELBOURNE, Jan 21 ― Home favourite Alex De Minaur stepped out of Nick Kyrgios’s shadow and stormed into the last 16 of the Australian Open on Saturday as fifth seed Aryna...
MELBOURNE, Jan 21 ― Home favourite Alex De Minaur stepped out of Nick Kyrgios’s shadow and stormed into the last 16 of the Australian Open on Saturday as fifth seed Aryna Sabalenka continued to bulldoze her way through the women’s draw.
“To see a packed Rod Laver Arena was pretty special, you know, all having my back,” the 22nd seed, who next faces either Novak Djokovic or Grigor Dimitrov, told reporters.Sabalenka gave no quarter to former doubles partner Elise Mertens on Margaret Court Arena, beating the Belgian 26th seedThe win set up an intriguing duel between the two players who won the season-opening tournaments in Adelaide, with 12th seed Belinda Bencic also through after beating Camila Giorgi 6-2 7-5 at Rod Laver Arena.
Men’s fifth seed Andrey Rublev earlier avoided a third round banana skin in the form of Dan Evans, sweeping aside the 25th seed 6-4 6-2 6-3 with 60 winners on a glorious afternoon. “I didn’t ask him , I asked the ball-boy,” said Rublev, who will meet Danish young gun Holger Rune for a place in the quarter-finals.Pliskova, renowned for being a former world number one without a Grand Slam title, beat Russian Varvara Gracheva 6-4 6-2 in the early match at Rod Laver Arena to book a fourth round spot against China’s Zhang Shuai.
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