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HIGHLIGHTS-Day five at the Australian Open

ByReuters

Published 20/01/2017 at 12:30 GMT

Latest news from day five of the Australian Open tennis championships on Friday (all times GMT):

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1210 FEDERER MAKES SHORT WORK OF BERDYCH
Roger Federer eases past 10th seed Tomas Berdych 6-2 6-4 6-4 and into the last 16, where he he will face Japan's Kei Nishikori.
1150 EVANS SETS HIS SIGHTS ON TSONGA
"It was a goal to make the fourth round of a slam this year... but I'm not looking back yet. Whatever happens it's been a great tournament. But there's still some tennis to be played," said Britain's Dan Evans, who beat Bernard Tomic and will play France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the fourth round.
1110 TOMIC IN PHILOSOPHICAL MOOD AFTER DEFEAT
"If a guy beats me like this, then too good. You can't be upset with yourself.... I was really satisfied with what I was doing. He just seemed to do the big points better... If you're beating me like that, then too good," said the Australian after his third-round defeat by Britain's Dan Evans.
1107 NISHIKORI BLASTS PAST LACKO IN STRAIGHT SETS
Japan's Kei Nishikori, the men's fifth seed, beats Slovakia's Lukas Lacko 6-4 6-4 6-4 to set up a fourth-round clash with either Roger Federer or Tomas Berdych.
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1030 BARTHEL OUSTS BARTY TO PROGRESS
Germany's Mona Barthel beats Australian Ashleigh Barty 6-4 3-6 6-3 and sets up a fourth round clash against American 13th seed Venus Williams.
1015 STRATEGIC THINKING BEHIND SUCCESSFUL CHALLENGES: VENUS
"I believe the challenge system is strategic: you should use it when you need it. I need every point. But if I don't necessarily need the point, save it for a time when you need it," Venus Williams said after her win over China's Duan Ying-Ying.
"If I feel like the ball is in, I've hit a million balls, I know what it feels like when it's in, so that's when I go for the challenge."
0955 EVANS BEATS TOMIC TO SET UP FOURTH ROUND TSONGA CLASH
Britain's Dan Evans continued his fairytale run by beating Australian 27th seed Bernard Tomic 7-5 7-6(2) 7-6(3) in two hours and 48 minutes to set up a fourth round tie with French 12th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
0859 MURRAY DEFENDS DJOKOVIC'S LOSS OF FORM
"(He is) struggling by the highest standards. But compared with most players, it's not been that bad really. Obviously I think for him the early loss at Wimbledon and here would be disappointing," Andy Murray said after his win over Sam Querrey.
"It's just not been as consistent as what it was the three years before. But how anyone is expected to keep up that level for their whole career, it's just unreasonable to expect that of anyone.
"There's been, yeah, a couple of surprising results, for sure. But on the whole, it's not been that bad."
0845 CAN'T LOOK TOO FAR AHEAD, SAYS WAWRINKA
"Tough match. Tough to say anything if you're not part of the team and you don't know what's happening inside. You can always say something that you think from outside," Stan Wawrinka said after his win over Viktor Troicki.
"(Denis) Istomin was playing really, really well... Tennis is always difficult. There's always difficult players every matches. That's why we always focus match by match and not thinking too much of the draw."
0811 VENUS STORMS INTO FOURTH ROUND
Venus Williams wastes no time in racing into the fourth round as the American 13th seed beat China's Duan Ying-Ying 6-1 6-0 in just 58 minutes.
0705 WAWRINKA RALLIES TO REACH FOURTH ROUND
Three-times grand slam winner Stan Wawrinka came back from a set down to beat Serbian 29th seed Viktor Troicki 3-6 6-2 6-2 7-6(7) in two hours and 32 minutes.
The Swiss fourth seed faces Italian Andreas Seppi in the next round.
0656 MURRAY BEATS QUERREY TO SET UP ZVEREV CLASH
World number one Andy Murray beats American Sam Querrey 6-4 6-2 6-4 in a little less than two hours to set up a fourth round clash against Germany's Mischa Zverev.
0643 TSONGA DOWNS SOCK TO ADVANCE
French 12th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was made to work hard for his win by Jack Sock as the American went down 7-6(4) 7-5 6-7(8) 6-3 in three hours and 33 minutes.
0632 ZVEREV KNOCKS OUT JAZIRI
Mischa Zverev beats Tunisian Malek Jaziri 6-1 4-6 6-3 6-0. The German will face world number one Andy Murray in the fourth round.
0621 KUZNETSOVA KEEN TO HONOUR SYMBOLIC BUTTERFLY LOGO
"They (sponsors) always make something special for me. That's how I sign with them, because I have no idea what brand was that. They made a special logo for me, and it was, like, SK with butterfly," Svetlana Kuznetsova said after her win over Jelena Jankovic.
"And it said in China it's like butterfly, symbol of rebirth, kind of comeback, and I thought it's really special and they will take me special, treat me special. I thought it's important for collaboration."
0610 SEPPI REACHES FOURTH ROUND
Italian Andreas Seppi came back from a set down to beat Belgium's Steve Darcis 4-6 6-4 7-6(1) 7-6(2) in three hours and seven minutes.
ORDER OF PLAY (prefix denotes seeding)
ROD LAVER ARENA
Eugenie Bouchard (Canada) v Coco Vandeweghe (U.S.)
1-Angelique Kerber (Germany) v Kristyna Pliskova (Czech Republic)
4-Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland) v 29-Viktor Troicki (Serbia)
Not before 0800 GMT:
Ashleigh Barty (Australia) v Mona Barthel (Germany)
10-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) v 17-Roger Federer (Switzerland)
MARGARET COURT ARENA
11-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) v 24-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia)
12-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) v 23-Jack Sock (U.S.)
Duan Yingying (China) v 13-Venus Williams (U.S.)
Not before 0800 GMT:
Lukas Lacko (Slovakia) v 5-Kei Nishikori (Japan)
32-Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia) v 7-Garbine Muguruza (Spain)
HISENSE ARENA
Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) v 8-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia)
Not before 0300 GMT:
1-Andy Murray (Britain) v 31-Sam Querrey (U.S.)
Not before 0500 GMT:
27-Bernard Tomic (Australia) v Daniel Evans (Britain) (Compiled by Greg Stutchbury and Shravanth Vijayakumar; Editing by Sudipto Ganguly and Ed Osmond)
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