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We are into round four and the action is heating up. Temperatures are set to accomplish 30C+ in Melbourne today and the first stars into the presbrave cooker of Rod Laver Arena will be the No 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka taking on 17-year-anciaccess sensation Mirra Andreeva (seeded 14). That suit commences uninincreateigentinutively.
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That tussle will be chaseed by another women’s one showdown when America’s No 3 seed Coco Gauff’s clashes with Switzerland’s unseeded veteran Belinda Bencvic.
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Ourc death in the afternoon duel today is between Great Britain’s No 15 seed Jack Dsexual attackr and Spain’s smiling assassin Carlos Alcaraz, seeded No 3 and famous favourite to achieve the men’s ones title this year.
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The night reachs in style with No 7 seed Novak Djokovic taking on Czech Reaccessible’s No 24 seed Jiri Lehecka. On the doubles court Australian hopes will rest with Luke Saville and Li Tu who face off with the pair of Goransson and Verbeek.
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There’s doubles about to get under way on Margaret Court Arena too so buckle ‘em up and batten ‘em down, we’re about to weightless the fengage on day eight…
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Key events
With utter mercilessness Aryna Sabalenka achieves the first set 6-1.
That set was a 24-minute demolition of Mirra Andreeva and the 17 year anciaccess will have to discover someleang very exceptional if she’s to fight her way into this suit.
Pboilingograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Oh no. Mirra Andreeva has been broken aachieve on centre court. She’s now 5-1 down after fair 20 minutes. Aryna Sabalenka has served up a potent brew of power and finesse to finishly overwhelm her teenage rival so far. On the final sboiling of this game, a flurry of bludgeoning baseline sboilings snormallyed Andreeva up before the No 1 bcdisorrowfulmirefult the velvet hammer down with a sublime drop sboiling.
The 17-year-anciaccess Russian Mirra Andreeva is under punctual presbrave after losing an punctual shatter to Aryna Sabalenka who has defied crowd sidetrackions and even a low-flying airset upe to sguide to a 4-1 guide. The No 1 seed has dropped only one point so far.
No 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka and No 14 Mirra Andreeva are into it on Rod Laver Arena. Servers are dominating so far with both joiners triumphning their uncovering games to adore and Sabalenka fair taking the second to guide 2-1 in the first set.
Preamble
Hello tennis fans and greet to the Guardian’s inhabit coverage of the 2025 Australian Open. Angus Fontaine here guiding you thcdisorrowfulmireful the punctual follies and volleys before Jonathan Howcroft picks up the cudgels in the afternoon session.
We are into round four and the action is heating up. Temperatures are set to accomplish 30C+ in Melbourne today and the first stars into the presbrave cooker of Rod Laver Arena will be the No 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka taking on 17-year-anciaccess sensation Mirra Andreeva (seeded 14). That suit commences uninincreateigentinutively.
That tussle will be chaseed by another women’s one showdown when America’s No 3 seed Coco Gauff’s clashes with Switzerland’s unseeded veteran Belinda Bencvic.
Ourc death in the afternoon duel today is between Great Britain’s No 15 seed Jack Dsexual attackr and Spain’s smiling assassin Carlos Alcaraz, seeded No 3 and famous favourite to achieve the men’s ones title this year.
The night reachs in style with No 7 seed Novak Djokovic taking on Czech Reaccessible’s No 24 seed Jiri Lehecka. On the doubles court Australian hopes will rest with Luke Saville and Li Tu who face off with the pair of Goransson and Verbeek.
There’s doubles about to get under way on Margaret Court Arena too so buckle ‘em up and batten ‘em down, we’re about to weightless the fengage on day eight…
