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Andy Murray tries to again up his first-round victory over Matteo Berrettini by profitable once more and incomes a visit to the third spherical of the Australian Open for the primary time since 2017.
The 35-year-old Murray is a three-time Grand Slam champion and a five-time runner-up at Melbourne Park. He now faces Thanasi Kokkinakis after taking part in Berrettini for greater than 4 1/2 hours within the first spherical.
Kokkinakis did not full his first-round match till Wednesday, as a result of it was halted by rain when Kokkinakis was 5 factors from victory on Tuesday.
Novak Djokovic can be in motion within the second spherical as he continues his quest for a record-extending tenth Australian Open title and twenty second Grand Slam trophy total.
That will tie the boys’s document presently held by Rafael Nadal, who misplaced within the second spherical Wednesday after hurting his hip.
Probably the most intriguing ladies’s match on Thursday’s schedule pits WTA Finals champion and No. 4 seed Caroline Garcia towards 2021 U.S. Open finalist Leylah Fernandez.
Girls’s First Spherical: Varvara Gracheva beat No. 8 Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-1.
Girls’s Second Spherical: No. 1 Iga Swiatek beat Camila Osorio 6-2, 6-3; No. 3 Jessica Pegula beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-2, 7-6 (5); No. 6 Maria Sakkari beat Diana Shnaider 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; No. 7 Coco Gauff beat Emma Raducanu 6-3, 7-6 (4); No. 10 Madison Keys beat Wang Xinyu 6-3, 6-2; No. 13 Danielle Collins beat Karolina Muchova 6-7 (1), 6-2, 7-6 (6); Anhelina Kalinina beat No. 15 Petra Kvitova 7-5, 6-4; No. 24 Victoria Azarenka beat Nadia Podoroska 6-1, 6-0.
Males’s Second Spherical: Mackenzie McDonald beat No. 1 Rafael Nadal 6-4, 6-4, 7-5; No. 3 Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Rinky Hijikata 6-3, 6-0, 6-2; No. 6 Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Alex Molcan 3-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2; No. 7 Daniil Medvedev beat John Millman 7-5, 6-2, 6-2; No. 10 Hubert Hurkacz beat Lorenzo Sonego 3-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-3, 6-3; No. 15 Jannik Sinner beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-3, 6-2, 6-2; No. 16 Frances Tiafoe beat Shang Juncheng 6-4, 6-4, 6-1; No. 29 Sebastian Korda beat Yosuke Watanuki 6-2, 7-5, 6-4.
70 — Variety of photographs in some extent gained by Jason Kubler throughout his 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 loss to No. 18 Karen Khachanov. The purpose lasted about 1 1/2 minutes and ended when Kubler hit a backhand that clipped the web tape and landed on Khachanov’s aspect of the court docket. It allowed Kubler to interrupt Khachanov and make it 5-all within the second set.
“Earlier than, I wasn’t actually as much as beating a man like that and even believing I may. In the present day I believed it extra and confirmed that. I used to be on a mission greater than on a trip.” — Mackenzie McDonald, after beating Rafael Nadal within the second spherical. The opposite time they performed, on the 2020 French Open, Nadal gained 6-1, 6-0, 6-3.
