3rd-seeded Muguruza out of Australian Open

“If they’re in form, they go through that little gap and I think here for Jo, playing like she is at the moment, that’s definitely possible, why not?”

The Swiss won two tournaments previous year – including in Toronto, where she upset Williams. We didn’t win. I expected to win the tournament, I don’t know why, but…

At last year’s U.S. Open she beat Garbine Muguruza, who was coming off a run to the final at Wimbledon, and has also had wins in 2015 over No. 2 Simona Halep and two-time Australian Open victor Victoria Azarenka.

Kasatkina managed to get on the scoreboard in holding serve for 1-3 but she had no answers to Williams’ serve as she rattled through the set in just 22 minutes.

Instead, she is on a quest for a sixth Grand Slam title, readying herself for a challenge from an opponent 10 years her junior.

Other players with more tenuous links have been “adopted”, including Belgian four-times grand slam champion Kim Clijsters, who was affectionately known as “Aussie Kim” due to her relationship with local champion Lleyton Hewitt.

“I thought I would, I mean, not have kids at 20, but I would have children at this point”. “That’s what I play for”, she said.

“My second match (against Hseih Su-Wei) I thought, under the circumstances, I thought I played well”.

“I don’t know if it’s only fitness, but also the focus and the belief that you can really play the best at the most important points”.

Agnieszka Radwanska has reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open for the sixth straight year, beating Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig 6-4, 6-0.

Sharapova was presented with a cake to mark her 600th victory and later expressed her gratitude on Twitter.

Dimitrov had just held serve to start the match when rain began falling and the match was briefly suspended while the roof was closed.

The Czech had previously beaten Konta at the French Open past year but it is a measure of how far the Briton has come that she encountered so few problems inside a packed out Hisense Arena.

Former finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has advanced to the fourth round at Melbourne Park with a 6-4, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4) win over fellow Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

And yes, Williams was sweet enough to share an encouraging word with the youngster at the net, before paying tribute to her in the post-match address on court. I think I had something like 11 set points in both sets combined and I was like ranked 150. She plays Anna-Lena Friedsam, who stunned No. 13 seed Roberta Vinci 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 to make her first fourth round at a Slam.

As for her legacy and her future, she was reminded that she and Lleyton Hewitt played in the mixed doubles here in 1998.