Local girl Daria Gavrilova upsets Petra Kvitova at Australian Open

Per AusOpen.com’s Vivienne Christie, Federer set a record by becoming the first player to win 300 matches at Grand Slam events. Obviously serving for it the second time, I wanted it just as much’. “I kind of needed that; there’ve been some things I worked on over the offseason, so it worked out for me today”.

After his second-round win, he was asked about an Italian newspaper report casting doubt over his performance in a match against Fabrice Santoro, which he lost 3-6, 2-6, in Paris in 2007. She will next take on Russian Daria Kasatkina, who defeated Serena’s older sister Venus at the ASB Classic two weeks ago.

2008 champion Maria Sharapova, playing in her second match of the season, moved past Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-2, 6-1.

The effervescent Gavrilova was broken twice in the first set, lashing out each time.

“I want to hug the whole stadium!”

“I don’t even really know that”. Davis took the first set from Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybarikova 7-6(7) before Rybarikova retired. She’s a great kid, she works hard, she’s had her ups and downs, she had knee surgery early in her career and she’s come back from that, so she’s resilient that’s for sure.

“They pulled me through in the end. Definitely not an easy draw”, said Radwanska.

“I think everything was wrong, actually”.

“I get very emotional on court”.

The watershed win not only guaranteed Ms Gavrilova a $200,000 pay day – the biggest cheque of her fledging career – and the possibility of more, but also a fresh career-high ranking inside the world’s top 30.

There was further success for the home crowd to celebrate as Nick Kyrgios came through his second round tie against Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas 6-4, 7-5, 7-6.

New fan favourite Daria Gavrilova says she is not feeling any pressure amid the growing hype about her winning run at the Australian Open. Djokovic defeated No. 28 Andreas Seppi 6-1, 7-5, 7-6 (6) to book a spot in the fourth round.

Earning comparisons as the female version of recently-retired Lleyton Hewitt due to her seemingly unlimited energy and endearing competitive spirit, Gavrilova will now face Spanish 10th seed Carla Suarez Navarro for an opportunity to reach her first ever grand slam quarter-final.