Serena Williams Through into Next Round in Melbourne

Serena Williams of the United States reacts as she plays Daria Kasatkina of Russian Federation during their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 22, 2016.

Williams has now won 71 of her 80 matches in the Australian Open. She becomes the first British woman to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open since Jo Durie in 1987.

After the match, she was asked if she was chilly.

“It’s not something I ever aimed for or looked for, but when it happens, it’s very special”.

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“But overall really happy with how I came out in the third and stepped up, considering it’s been, you know, many weeks since I’ve been in that position”. Thanks everybody for coming out, thanks very much for supporting me throughout this whole week so far’.

When the subject cropped up again in her post-match news conference, she explained the idea was to marry the “youth and fun-ness” of the pop culture world with tradition.

The BBC, meanwhile, hailed her as “Queen Konta” in a congratulatory tweet after the match.

– Daria Gavrilova lights it up for the home crowd: The Aussie outlasted a exhausted Kristina Mladenovic to win, 6-4, 4-6, 11-9 to advance to the Round of 16 for the first time at a major.

Her fortunes have risen since teaming up with Spanish coaches Esteban Carril and Jose-Manuel Garcia at their training base in Gijon at the end of 2014, and beginning to work with London-based mental coach Juan Coto.

A year ago at Melbourne Park she sported a green and pink number with a distinctive cut-out back, which she said sent a feminist message that “you can be attractive and powerful at the same time”.

“I’m getting a lot of Australia questions”, she said, adding that she felt it was a compliment to her “for you guys to be interested in my Australian roots”. “It was hard to play every point the way I wanted”, Allertova said.

“I never thought that I’d be playing at this age, honestly”, said Sharapova, whose personal life remains out of bounds, although she most recently had a relationship with fellow player Grigor Dimitrov.

The Sydney-born 24-year-old beat former world number one Venus Williams in round one to take her list of top-20 scalps to five since the US Open last year. “It was one of those days where everything I did went right. I will try to play my best tennis”.