Italian job as Djokovic soars into Round 4

“Hopefully because the world is watching, something will be done about it. We need to flag who these players were”, said Fernandez, a three-time Grand Slam finalist, victor of two Grand Slam women’s doubles titles and two Olympic gold medals.

Kei Nishikori had some trouble with his wrist, taking a medical timeout and losing the next set before recovering to reach the fourth round at the Australian Open with a 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 win Friday over No. 26-seeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. “He’s fit enough for a five-setter, so, I’ve definitely got to bring my best game to the court”. “But certainly I must be pleased with a straight-set win because both sets-especially the third-could have gone a different way”.

“It’s not warm but it’s built for speed”, the six-times champion quipped. Dimitrov, who has a similar playing style to the Swiss star and was even nicknamed “Baby Fed” when he first came on tour, hasn’t beaten Federer in four meetings.

“The more you win actually the higher expectations are from yourself and from others”, he said.

Fifth seed Maria Sharapova also lost a set to Lauren Davis but that only infuriated the 2008 champion and she raced through the decider 6-1 6-7(5) 6-0 to claim her 600th WTA victory.

Serbian world number one Novak Djokovic extended his relentless hold over Italy’s Andreas Seppi as he swept into the fourth round of the Australian Open on Friday.

“It’s very exciting, I must tell you”, Federer assured.

“I do know when they’ve been at Futures in Turkey that they’ve been approached to throw matches or sets”. Genie Bouchard advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 win against Alexandra Krunic.

“Pain is my second name”, the Pole said. “It’s just speculation. So I don’t think there is a story about it”.

Meanwhile, WTA’s world No. 1 Serena Williams also reached the round of 16 after cruising past Russian teenager Daria Kasatkina 6-1 6-1 in 44 minutes.

Former U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic was the one major casualty of the day in the men’s draw, going down 6-4 7-6(5) 7-5 to Roberto Bautista Agut.

A night after Melbourne Park bid an emotional farewell to Lleyton Hewitt, the locals noisily embraced their newest darling after Daria Gavrilova backed up her upset of Petra Kvitova by beating Kristina Mladenovic 6-4 4-6 11-9.

“It made me feel bad because I don’t want to be anyhow linked to this kind of – you know, somebody may call it an opportunity”, he said. He next will play sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych, who beat temperamental Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 in the third round.

“I don’t think anyone here would think that I’ve done anything (like) corruption or match-fixing”.

Santoro rubbishes fixing slur in Djoko match, says claims should be supported with evidence Fabrice Santoro has laughed off a suggestion that Novak Djokovic deliberately lost to him at the Paris Masters in 2007. Yeah, you look deeper into it, I guess, where it’s all happened and how.