HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-Australian Open day three
MELBOURNE, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Highlights of day three of the Australian Open tennis championships at Melbourne Park on Wednesday. All matches are second round. Times local (GMT +11):
1822 DJOKOVIC WOBBLES BUT FIGHTS BACK
World number one and 17-times Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic beat American Frances Tiafoe 6-3 6-7(3) 7-6(2) 6-3 to reach the third round for the 14th time.
1806 SHAPOVALOV BEATS QUALIFIER TOMIC
Canadian 11th seed Denis Shapovalov sent down 16 aces and hit 37 winners for a 6-1 6-3 6-2 win over Australian qualifier Bernard Tomic.
1755 VENUS KNOCKED OUT BY ITALIAN QUALIFIER
Seven-times Grand Slam champion Venus Williams crashed out following a 1-6 0-6 loss to Italian qualifier Sara Errani, who is ranked 134.
1720 THIEM STORMS INTO ROUND THREE
Austrian third seed Dominic Thiem eased past Germany's Dominik Koepfer 6-4 6-0 6-2 to reach the third round for the fifth time.
1630 FUCSOVICS KNOCKS OUT WAWRINKA IN FIVE SETS
Hungarian Marton Fucsovics got the better of three-time Grand Slam champion and 17th seed Stan Wawrinka 7-5 6-1 4-6 2-6 7-6(9) in a thriller lasting almost four hours.
1610 MUGURUZA EASES PAST SAMSONOVA
Spanish 14th seed Garbine Muguruza sealed a 6-3 6-1 win over Russian qualifier Liudmila Samsonova in just over an hour.
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1430 SERENA STROLLS INTO ROUND THREE
Serena Williams, chasing a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title, raced past Serbia's Nina Stojanovic 6-3 6-0 in just 69 minutes to reach the third round for the 19th time.
1420 SCHWARTZMAN BREEZES PAST MULLER
Argentine eighth seed Diego Schwartzman converted nine break points in a dominant 6-2 6-0 6-3 win over France's lucky loser Alexandre Muller.
1420 AUGER-ALIASSIME KNOCKS OUT HOME HOPE DUCKWORTH
Canadian youngster Felix Auger-Aliassime progressed to the third round for the first time with a 6-4 6-1 6-2 win over local favourite James Duckworth.
1240 SABALENKA ADVANCES WITH WIN OVER KASATKINA
Seventh seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus ground down classy Russian Daria Kasatkina 7-6(5) 6-3 in the early match at Margaret Court Arena.
1240 ANDREESCU'S COMEBACK CUT SHORT BY HSIEH
Bianca Andreescu's comeback after a 15-month absence from tennis ended abruptly with the Canadian eighth seed crumbling to a 6-3 6-2 defeat to Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei in the opening match at Rod Laver Arena.
1108 PLAY GETS UNDERWAY
Play began on a warm, sunny morning at Melbourne Park with the temperature hovering around 24 degrees Celsius.
Authorities reported two new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the state of Victoria late on Tuesday. (Reporting by Ian Ransom, Hardik Vyas and Manasi Pathak; Editing by Peter Rutherford & Shri Navaratnam)
