The Latest: Alexander Zverev into 3rd round in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Newest on Wednesday from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park (all instances native):

10:55 p.m.

Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zverev superior to the third spherical on the Australian Open and continued a streak at Grand Slam tournaments by beating Australian veteran John Millman 6-4, 6-4, 6-0.

The third-seeded Zverev has an ideal file towards gamers at their dwelling majors. He’s now 2-0 towards Australians on the Australian Open, 3-0 towards French gamers at Roland Garros and 4-0 towards People on the U.S. Open. He has by no means confronted a British participant at Wimbledon.

“I’m ready that everybody will hate me after the match. I believe it’s fairly correct. I’ll get quite a lot of boos,” he mentioned jokingly throughout his on-court TV interview to cheers from the gang. “To be sincere, sports activities wants the ambiance. Sports activities wants the folks. I benefit from the ambiance. I benefit from the noise.”

Zverev will subsequent play Radu Albot. The Moldovan qualifier beat Australian wild-card entry Aleksandar Vukio within the second spherical.

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8:30 p.m.

Defending champion Naomi Osaka has superior to the third spherical of the Australian Open with a 6-0, 6-4 win over Madison Brengle in an evening match on Rod Laver Area.

Osaka dominated the opening set, conceding simply 4 factors within the first 4 video games, and clinched it in 20 minutes.

Naomi Osaka of Japan reacts throughout her first spherical match towards Camila Osorio of Colombia on the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022.

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However Brengle, an American ranked 54th, elevated the stress within the second set and broke Osaka’s serve within the seventh recreation.

It triggered a direct response from the previous No. 1-ranked Osaka, who recovered the break instantly and completed off by profitable the final 9 factors of the match.

She's going to subsequent face Amanda Anisimova, a 20-year-old American who beat Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic 6-2, 7-5.

Earlier, French Open champion and fourth-seeded Barbora Krejcikova beat Wang Xiyu 6-2, 6-3 to maneuver right into a third-round match towards No. 26 Jelena Ostapenko.

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7 p.m.

Amanda Anisimova is revelling on the hardcourts at Melbourne Park, stretching her profitable streak right here by advancing to the third spherical of the Australian Open.

The 20-year-old American took lower than 90 minutes to beat Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic 6-2, 7-5 to arrange a possible third-round match towards defending Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka.

Anisimova warmed up for her twelfth Grand Slam look by profitable 5 matches and the title at a WTA 250 tune-up occasion at Melbourne Park earlier this month.

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5 p.m.

Rafael Nadal has moved into the third spherical with a 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win over 126th-ranked German qualifier Yannick Hanfmann.

The sixth-seeded Nadal, aiming for a males’s file twenty first Grand Slam singles title, didn’t get all of it his personal approach in a day match on Rod Laver Area.

He had two match factors on Hanfmann’s serve within the ninth recreation of the third set after which two extra on his personal within the subsequent recreation earlier than lastly clinching the win in 2 hours and 42 minutes when his rival despatched a forehand lengthy.

Nadal transformed 4 of his 16 break level possibilities, together with one in every of eight within the third set, however solely confronted two breakpoints on his personal serve and fended them each off.

The 35-year-old Nadal shares the lads’s file of 20 singles titles with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Federer is skipping the Australian Open whereas he continues his restoration from harm. Djokovic, a nine-time champion at Melbourne Park, couldn’t play after having his visa canceled for failing to satisfy Australia’s strict COVID-19 vaccination rules.

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1:45 p.m.

Prime-ranked Ash Barty is breezing by the Australian Open draw to this point. Issues might get much more fascinating quickly sufficient.

Barty prolonged her streak of service holds to 48 video games and moved into the third spherical at Melbourne Park for the sixth consecutive 12 months by beating 142nd-ranked qualifier Lucia Bronzetti 6-1, 6-1 in below an hour Tuesday in Rod Laver Area.

Barty dropped only one recreation in her first-round match, which additionally took lower than an hour, as she bids to change into the primary Australian lady since 1978 to win the nation’s Grand Slam event.

She is already a two-time main champion, with trophies on the French Open in 2019 and Wimbledon final 12 months.

Subsequent up for Barty shall be a matchup towards one other Italian, Thirtieth-seeded Camila Giorgi. Win that, and Barty might find yourself in a fourth-round showdown towards defending champion Naomi Osaka.

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1 p.m.

Eighth-seeded Paula Badosa has moved into the third spherical of the Australian Open with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Italian qualifier Martina Trevisan in Rod Laver Area.

Badosa gained the title at a Sydney tuneup event final week, when she put collectively back-to-back match wins in Australia for the primary time.

In different early second-round outcomes on Day 3 of the 12 months’s first tennis Grand Slam occasion, two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka beat Jil Teichmann 6-1, 6-2, and No. 30 Camila Giorgi beat Tereza Martincova 6-2, 7-6 (2).

Prime-ranked Ash Barty, aiming to be the primary Australian lady to win the house championship since 1978, was enjoying Lucia Bronzetti on the primary courtroom at Melbourne Park.

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10:45 a.m.

Sunny skies and a nice temperature of 25 levels Celsius (77 Fahrenheit) have greeted gamers and spectators on Day 3 at Melbourne Park.

The second spherical kicks off with an all-European match between eighth-seeded Paula Badosa and Martina Trevisan on Rod Laver Area.

Prime-seeded Ash Barty is the following up on the primary courtroom towards Lucia Bronzetti, adopted by Rafael Nadal’s match towards Yannick Hanfmann.

Defending champion Naomi Osaka will open evening play at Rod Laver Area towards Madison Brengle.

Barty is making an attempt to change into the primary Australian lady in 44 years to win the title however she’s been drawn in the identical quarter of the draw as Osaka, that means the 2 prime names right here might meet within the fourth spherical.

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