HIGHLIGHTS-Day six at the Australian Open

0609 KONTA THRASHES WOZNIACKI

Ninth seed Johanna Konta wastes no time in beating former world number one Caroline Wozniacki 6-3 6-1 in 75 minutes to progress to the fourth round, where she will face Russian 30th seed Ekaterina Makarova.

0516 MARAKOVA EASES CONCERNS OVER INJURY

"When I fell down, maybe I didn't put in the right position this hand," Ekaterina Makarova said after her third round win over Dominika Cibulkova.

"And it was a little bit kind of nerving. But then after the treatment, she did the (indiscernible), and it's fine."

0452 MAKAROVA'S INJURY TIMEOUT DISRUPTS CIBULKOVA'S RHYTHM

"I think she was cramping a little bit in her hand. Maybe not. I don't know. I didn't really think about it," Dominika Cibulkova said after her surprise loss to Ekaterina Makarova.

"But, yeah, it was something that I don't want to say that I don't like, but, you know, when I go and I'm in my rhythm, I just, you know, go, go. This break was -- yeah, it broke my rhythm a little bit, but it wasn't -- it wasn't something that why I would lose today."

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0440 WILLIAMS EASES INTO FOURTH ROUND

Second seed Serena Williams secures a comfortable 6-1 6-3 victory over Nicole Gibbs on Rod Laver Arena.

The 22-times grand slam winner now faces 16th seed Barbora Strycova in the fourth round.

0435 THIEM BEATS PAIRE AFTER 'CRAZY' FOURTH SET

Austrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem overcomes Benoit Paire 6-1 4-6 6-4 6-4 to advance to the fourth round, where he next faces 11th seed David Goffin.

"The fourth set was a little bit crazy," said Thiem, who was broken three times but still won the set.

Thiem said of Goffin: "There are no secrets between us. We have played seven or eight times, he is an amazing player and all our matches are really close."

0350 BRADY UNSURE HOW BIG PAYDAY WILL AFFECT HER

"I probably won't know how it feels until I get the check or see the wire transfer," the American qualifier said after securing at least A$220,000 for making the fourth round.

The 21-year-old has career earnings of $175,064 by playing mostly second tier events since her first tournament in 2010, where she won $98 in losing to Chanelle Van Nguyen in the first round in Evansville.

0310 MAKAROVA OVERCOMES CIBULKOVA, LUCIC-BARONI THROUGH

Ekaterina Makarova overcame an injury timeout and a partial breakdown after she let Dominika Cibulkova fight back from a set and a 4-0 deficit in the second to advance to the fourth round with a tense 6-2 6-7(3) 6-3 victory over the sixth seed on Rod Laver Arena.

Croatian veteran Mirjana Lucic-Baroni also advanced to the fourth round for the first time at Melbourne Park after she fought back from a set down against Greece's Maria Sakkari to record a 3-6 6-2 6-3 victory.

The 34-year-old Lucic-Baroni, who lost to Steffi Graf in the Wimbledon semi-finals in 1999, now faces American qualifier Jennifer Brady for a place in the quarter-finals.

0300 SERENA HAS NOT WON YET - STRYCOVA

"She's human, and she is beatable. This is a grand slam, and we are talking that she already won, but I don't like these talks," Czech 16th seed Barbvora Strycova says about a potential fourth-round clash with Serena Williams, who is yet to play Nicole Gibbs in the third round.

"If she wins, I will try my best. And I will have to work hard and play my best tennis to beat Serena, because she is an amazing player. She knows how to play these matches."

0144 STRYCOVA OVERCOMES GARCIA TO ADVANCE

Czech 16th-seed Barbora Strycova rattles off the final four games to overturn a 5-3 second set deficit to beat 21st-seeded Caroline Garcia 6-2 7-5 on Margaret Court Arena.

Strycova next faces world number two Serena Williams in the fourth round.

0142 BRADY UPSETS VESNINA TO MAKE FOURTH ROUND

Unseeded American Jennifer Brady upsets 14th seed Elena Vesnina 7-6(4) 6-2 on Show Court 2 to make her first grand slam fourth round. The 116th ranked Brady overwhelmed the 18th-ranked Vesnina in 84 minutes to set up a clash with Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.

0016 PLAY UNDERWAY ON ALL COURTS

Sixth seed Dominika Cibulkova has begun her match against Russia's Ekaterina Makarova on Rod Laver Arena in perfect conditions with the temperature hovering at 19C and not expected to get much warmer.

World number two Serena Williams will follow on the main showcourt against compatriot Nicole Gibbs while Rafa Nadal faces exciting German teenager Alexander Zverev.

ORDER OF PLAY (prefix denotes seeding)

ROD LAVER ARENA

24-Alexander Zverev (Germany) v 9-Rafael Nadal (Spain)

Not before 0800 GMT:

22-Daria Gavrilova (Australia) v 12-Timea Bacsinszky (Switzerland)

15-Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria) v 18-Richard Gasquet (France)

MARGARET COURT ARENA

Not before 0800 GMT:

6-Gael Monfils (France) v 32-Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany)

5-Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) v Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)

HISENSE ARENA

Not before 0700 GMT:

25-Gilles Simon (France) v 3-Milos Raonic (Canada) (Compiled by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by Peter Rutherford/Sudipto Ganguly)