Overnight at the Australian Open - Wawrinka, Williams ease through as Murray dumped out

ByReuters

Published 22/01/2017 at 08:47 GMT

Everything you need to know from the overnight action at Melbourne Park – with Stan Wawrinka and Venus Williamsmaking pretty serene progress as Andy Murray was dumped out.

Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka celebrates his victory against Italy's Andreas Seppi during their men's singles fourth round match on day seven of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 22, 2017.

Image credit: AFP

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Andy Murray's dream of winning a maiden Australian Open title was left in tatters on Sunday after the top seed and world number one was knocked out in the fourth round by Mischa Zverev.

German Zverev, in the fourth round at a grand slam for the first time after a career ravaged by injury, flummoxed his contemporary with his unorthodox serve-volley game and broke the Wimbledon and Olympic champion eight times over the contest.

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The world number 50 served like a demon and was helped by a below-par performance from the Briton but thoroughly deserved his 7-5 5-7 6-2 6-4 victory over three and a half hours on Rod Laver Arena.

Stan Wawrinka's campaign for a second Australian Open title stepped up a gear as the hard-working Swiss fended off Italian journeyman Andreas Seppi 7-6(2) 7-6(4) 7-6(4) to reach his fourth quarter-final at Melbourne Park.

Earlier, Venus Williams booked her place in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open courtesy of a 6-3 7-5 win against Mona Barthel.

Venus Williams eases past Mona Barthel

Saturday's highlights

Andy Murray was knocked out of the Australian Open in the fourth round on Sunday, losing 7-5 5-7 6-2 6-4 to German world number 50 Mischa Zverev. REPORT
Swiss fourth seed Stan Wawrinka beats veteran Italian Andreas Seppi 7-6(2) 7-6(4) 7-6(4) to reach his fourth quarter-final at Melbourne Park. REPORT
Venus Williams continued to turn back the clock with a 6-3 7-5 victory over Germany's Mona Barthel in the fourth round of the Australian Open. REPORT
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova punished an erratic display from Svetlana Kuznetsova to progress to the quarter-final stage of the Australian Open, courtesy of a 6-3 6-3 win. REPORT

Britwatch

Florin Mergea and Dominic Inglot passed up a couple of match points as Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut came from a set down to progress to the quarters, but worse was to come for the British contingent.

Herbert and Mahut down Mergea and Inglot

World number one Murray was sensationally dumped out of by Mischa Zverev.

Stat of the day

...yep, that puts into perspective just how big a shock the Murray loss was...

Respect

Mischa Zverev’s career looked over just a couple of years ago. Fast forward two years and he has just recorded the biggest win of his career. Respect.

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