Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber wins the double, her third-round match at a Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne. Caroline Wozniacki needs to bury the dream of a title defence.
To your 31. Birthday donee Angelique Kerber. After only 58 minutes you converted her fourth match ball to the 6:1 and 6:0 against the completely overwhelmed Australian Kimberly Birrell. “I think I played a solid Match from the first to the last point,” said the Wimbledon champion, after their unchallenged success in the third round of the Australian Open. “Of course I’m glad that today went a bit faster. So we can make a toast on my birthday.”
Defendant Birrell, the number 240 in the world rankings, was quickly unsettled. The 20-Year-old made a lot of unforced errors, the advantage of Kerber mercilessly. In the second round of the world rank list second of Germany on Sunday on the US-American Danielle Collins, who had defeated at the start of the Australian Open, surprisingly, Julia Görges.
The defending champion is out
Wozniacki is excreted
Meanwhile, defending champion Caroline Wozniacki has failed in the third round of the Ex-champion Maria Sharapova. The Dane lost the duel of the former world ranked First in three sets with 4:6, 6:4, 3:6. Wozniacki had won last year in Melbourne after a long wait, her first Grand Slam tournament.
The Russian Scharapawa, the lock of the four biggest tournaments in front of their doping could all decide for themselves, meets in the second round on Sunday at the Australian Ashleigh Barty.
More to the Australian Open
Federer and Nadal victories smooth
In the men’s defending champion Roger Federer gave no nakedness, and moved with a smooth success at 17. Time in his career into the Australian Open round of sixteen. The winner of the past two years, won against the American Taylor Fritz in three sets with 6:2, 7:5, 6:2. Federer needed for its success just 1:28 hours. With a seventh Triumph in Melbourne, the 37-Year-old is the sole record would be the winner of the Grand Slam tournament. In the round of 16 this Sunday, Federer meets the emerging Greeks Stefanos Tsitsipas.
As Federer also Rafael Nadal moved without losing a set in the next round. The 32-year-old Spaniard Nadal was 13 years younger Australian Alex de Minaur in the 6:1, 6:2, 6:4 no Chance.
sn/asz (dpa, sid)