Sabalenka and Rublev advance to round 4 at the Australian Open

In the morning session of the 6th day of the Australian Open played in Melbourne, the matches of the 3rd round continued.

In the women’s singles match, Sabalenka defeated Belgian Elise Mertens (26 seeds) 2-0 in sets 6-2 6-3.

The Swiss Belinda Bencic (12) beat the Italian Camila Giorgi 2-0, who was in 70th place in the standings, with sets that ended 6-2 and 7-5.

In women, the Chinese Shuai Zhang (23), the American Katie Volynets 2-0 (6-3, 6-2), the Czech Karolina Pliskova (30), the Russian Varvara Gracheva 2-0 (6-4, 6- 2), the Croatian Donna Vekic defeated the Spanish Nuria Parrizas Díaz 2-0 (6-2, 6-2), the Czech Linda Fruhvirtova defeated her compatriot Marketa Vondrousova 2-1 (7-5, 2-6, 6 -3) and advanced to the 4th round.

In the fourth round, the matches of Pliskova-Zhang, Sabalenka-Bencic and Vekic-Fruhvirtova will be played.

FAVORITES ON SINGLE MEN JUMPED TOUR

The favored tennis players, who took the court in the morning session matches in men’s singles, became famous in the fourth round.

Andrey Rublev defeated the British Daniel Evans (25) 6-4, 6-2 and 6-3 3-0.

Danish Holger Rune (9) beat Frenchman Ugo Humbert, world number 106, 3-0 in sets that ended 6-4, 6-2, 7-6.

In men, Australia’s Alex de Minaur (22), France’s Benjamin Bonzi 3-0 (7-6, 6-2, 6-1), USA’s Tommy Paul, USA’s Jenson Brooksby 3-0 ( 6-1), 6-4, 6-3), American JJ Wolf defeated his compatriot Michael Mmoh 3-0 (6-4, 6-1, 6-2) to reach the 4th round.

In the 4th round, in which Rublev faces Rune, De Minaur’s opponent will be the winner of the Grigor Dimitrov-Novak Djokovic match, Wolf’s opponent will be the winner of the Alexei Popyrin-Ben Shelton match, and Paul’s opponent will will be the winner of the match Andy Murray-Roberto Bautista Agut. (AA)