The American Emma Navarro, seeded n°8, won two sets to one (6-4, 3-6, 6-4) against the Tunisian Ons Jabeur in a duel which kept Melbourne Park in suspense Saturday at midday
Navarro, 8th in the world at the WTA, will face the winner of the match between Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, seeded No. 24, and Russian Daria Kasatkina, seeded No. 9 during her first round of 16 in the Grand Australian Slam.
Navarro dropped a set in each of his matches this week, against Peyton Stearns (6-7 [5]7-6 [5]7-5), who was eliminated at the end of the racket, and the Chinese Xiyu Wang (6-3, 3-6, 6-4). “I love Tennis so much, I always have to get into third sets,” quipped Navarro after his match against Jabeur.
-The Tunisian made four exceptional games to get back to one set everywhere but was generally playing a notch below Navarro, who kept the match on its terms.
Other third round matches at the Australian Open (Grand Slam, Melbourne Park, hard, 60,627,573 USD, results displayed from newest to oldest):
- Madison Keys – Danielle Collins: scheduled for Saturday
- Elina Svitolina – Jasmine Paolini: scheduled for Saturday
- Beatriz Haddad Maia – Veronika Kudermetova: scheduled for Saturday
- Elena Rybakina – Dayana Yastremska : programmé samedi
- Yulia Putintseva – Daria Kasatkina : Saturday program
- Eva Lys – Jaqueline Cristian: scheduled for Saturday
- Iga Swiatek (N.2) – Emma Raducanu : 6-1, 6-0
- Olga Danilovic – Jessica Pegula (N.7) : 7-6 [3]6-1
- Coco Gauff (N.3) – Leylah Fernandez (N.30) : 6-4, 6-2
- Belinda Bencic – Naomi Osaka: Bencic qualified (7-6 [3] ab.)
- Mirra Andreeva (N.14) – Magdalena Frech (N.23) : 6-2, 1-6, 6-2
- Paula Badosa (N.11) – Marta Kostyuk (N.17) : 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Aryna Sabalenka (N.1) – Clara Tauson : 7-6 [5]6-4
- Donna Vekic (N.18) – Diana Schneider (N.12) : 7-6 [4]6-7 [3]7-5
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (N.27) – Laura Siegemund : 6-1, 6-2
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