MELBOURNE — Last year's runner-up Zheng Qinwen was knocked out of the Australian Open on Wednesday in the biggest shock so far but defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and two-time winner Naomi Osaka battled into the third round.
MELBOURNE — Last year's runner-up Zheng Qinwen was knocked out of the Australian Open on Wednesday in the biggest shock so far but defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and two-time winner Naomi Osaka battled into the third round.Carlos Alcaraz was an emphatic victor in just 81 minutes over Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka as the Spaniard bids to lift the Melbourne crown for the first time.
Four-time Grand Slam winner Alcaraz dropped just five games in an ominous display of strength to sprint into the third round.The third seed showed no mercy to Nishioka in a 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 rout.'The less time you spend on court in the Grand Slams, especially in the beginning, it is going to be better,' said Alcaraz, who is yet to go beyond the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park.
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