MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Wait till FRIDAY
Coco Gauff continues her quest for a primary Grand Slam title as she performs her third-round match on the Australian Open. The 18-year-old from Florida faces one other American, Bernarda Pera. Gauff reached her first main ultimate eventually 12 months’s French Open earlier than shedding to Iga Swiatek. Gauff, who gained the WTA warm-up occasion in Auckland, has but to surrender at Melbourne Park this 12 months. She is making an attempt to grow to be the youngest Australian Open winner since Martina Hingis gained the primary of three consecutive titles in 1997 on the age of 16. High seed Swiatek and No. Three Jessica Pegula will look to maneuver one step nearer to a semifinal showdown. by successful video games on Friday. Swiatek performs Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa, whereas Pegula meets Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk. Third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas takes on Tallon Griekspoor, whereas Daniil Medvedev, the 2021 US Open champion and runner-up in Melbourne for the previous two years, takes on the 29th seed sequence, Sebastian Korda, from the USA.
FORECAST FOR FRIDAY
Principally sunny. Most of 75 levels Fahrenheit (24 levels Celsius).
THURSDAY’S KEY RESULTS
Ladies’s second spherical: No. 5 Aryna Sabalenka defeated Shelby Rogers 6-Three, 6-1; Katie Volynets beats no. 9 Veronica Kudermetova 6-Four, 2-6, 6-2; To know. 19 Ekaterina Alexandrova beat Taylor Townsend 1-6, 6-2, 6-Three; Magda Linette – Beat No. 16 Anett Kontaveit Three-6, 6-Three, 6-Four; To know. 26 Elise Mertens with Lauren Davis 6-Four, 6-Three; To know. 30 Karolina Pliskova bt Yulia Putintseva 6-Zero, 7-5; Linda Fruhvirtova beat Kimberly Birrell 6-Three, 6-2.
Males’s Second Spherical: Jenson Brooksby defeated no. 2 Casper Rudd 6-Three, 7-5, 6-7 (Four), 6-2; To know. 5 Andrey Rublev defeated Emil Rusuvuori 6-2, 6-Four, 6-7 (2), 6-Three; JJ Wolf Beat no. 23 Diego Schwartzman 6-1, 6-Four, 6-Four; To know. 25 Dan Evans beat Jeremy Chardy 6-Four, 6-Four, 6-1; Tommy Paul Beat No. 30 Alexander Davidovich Fokina 6-2, 2-6, 6-7 (Four), 6-Three, 6-Three; Ben Shelton defeated Nicholas Jarry 7-6 (Three), 7-6 (Three), 7-5.
STATE OF THE DAY
21 — Variety of years since males had been final seeded No. 1-2, each misplaced earlier than the third spherical at a Grand Slam event. Lleyton Hewitt and Gustavo Kuerten exited within the first spherical of the 2002 Australian Open.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“He makes tennis look a bit of bit completely different than another participant.” – Casper Ruud, describing Jenson Brooksby’s sport.
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