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Speaker 1: My goodness, he's going to under man. Hello and welcome to the AO Show for Day six of the Australian Open. I'm John Huvenars bringing you the big stories every day of the main draw. Today on the show, King Curios eclips his current.
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Speaker 2: This is just epic, man, I don't even know what's going on.
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Speaker 1: Seed scatter as Pav punishes Plushkiba. Another upset here. I'm the Australian Open. They just keep on coming. Garby Gazumpspitelina puts.
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Speaker 3: It away and she is into the fourth round.
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Speaker 1: And Contivate conquers benchit.
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Speaker 4: I was a little bit olwhelmed.
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Speaker 1: Plus all the key results and we see what the fans have to say on a record breaking super Saturday.
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Speaker 5: I'm going Bardi Bardi of course all the way to you and he can go all the way.
00:00:51
Speaker 1: But that's all coming up on the AO Show.
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Speaker 6: Carry outs on his back. He's lying there Astralagles. He doesn't believe what he's done. Oh my goodness, this is gonna got down in Australian Open folklore. I'll be talking about it's for years.
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Speaker 1: Well, another day, another super tie break, this time Nick Kurios battling through cramp and a grueling four hours twenty two minutes to edge out sixteen seed Current Kashanov in front of an adoring Melbourne Arena crowd. After winning the opening set six to two, The Australian was taken to four consecutive tiebreakers and had to overcome a mini break in the ten point tie break to finally eclipse the Russian six two seven six six seven six seven seven six males crazy.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know what to say right now. That was insane. I don't know. I've got no words out feeling right now. None of that would have happened without my team, that's for sure. You know they supported me with all the time. But you guys are on the level again.
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Speaker 1: Well, the task gets even harder for curios, who will face world number one Rafael Nadal in the fourth round.
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Speaker 3: Fourhand from Pleshkavas into the net and where's the upsets?
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Speaker 1: Anastasia bablu Chenkova.
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Speaker 7: Has moved into the round of sixteen here at the Australian Open.
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Speaker 1: The third round has continued to prove a poison chalice for the women's seeds, with Carolina Plishkiva among the high profile casualties. A Nastasia Pavlia Tchenkova took nearly two and a half hours to end the run of the number two seed in two tiebreak sets.
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Speaker 8: Well, what can I say, I'm really pleased with the match. First of all, I'm you know, I'm very we could say perfectionist, like sometimes I win matches and I still can be unhappy. I don't have this feeling today, and I'm really pleased, And not only that I've beaten Corolina also for the time, but also the way I played. I think overall is a really good match.
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Speaker 1: With a candid self assessment.
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Speaker 9: I think the biggest difference is, of course that you have much more matches here than you have on the normal tournaments, and it just goes for much longer. So I think somehow I'm not able to just find that game for a week or two, so I can play good one match, but not really four or five in a row so far. Well, I did it in the PUS, but not really consistently right now, And of course it's more pressure here, so I think everybody can feel it.
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Speaker 1: Probably a Chenkova will now face Angelie Kerber in the round of sixteen.
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Speaker 3: Serves deep in the box, Fidlina just gets a racket on it back behind her, Bosa puts it away.
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Speaker 1: And she is into the fourth round. Is she back?
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Speaker 3: The twice major champions been absent for a couple of years, but with steely determination she has Timlena Switdealina on center course.
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Speaker 1: It was a tough day at the office for fifth seed Alena s Fittalina, who was demolished by a resurgent Garabinia and Mugarutha in just over an hour. The Spaniard intent on avoiding comparisons to her form that led to two major titles in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 10: I don't even remember how you know it was in Wimledon, since you know, a lot of things have happened, and I tried never to compare myself when I achieved a good result or something, because you know, every every year March and everything changes. So I just feel like good out there. I think it was a good match from my side, and I'm just taking that. I don't want to think about how did I play two years ago or none of that.
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Speaker 11: About as combining as you are unlikely to see six forty nine minutes of brilliant.
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Speaker 1: Nobody saw that there was more carnage earlier in the day, with Belinda Benchicic unable to muster more than a single game in a forty nine minute massacre by a net Contivate.
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Speaker 7: I felt really good on court today. I feel like everything I did worked really well and I'm so happy with that performance today.
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Speaker 1: What do you think the basis was? Was it the serve, was that the ground strokes, everything seemed to be working well for you?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, definitely both.
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Speaker 7: I think I served quite well and yeah I was aggressive, and yeah I think I was. I was doing the things I wanted to.
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Speaker 10: Do really well.
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Speaker 1: Benchicch left licking her wounds.
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Speaker 4: I was also thinking about this after the match. I was like, is it worse to do seven six in the third or six zero six one? I'm not sure. It's just like you didn't you never had a chance to win the match kind of and when you lose seven six year, maybe it's a little bit more how you say, bitter, because you had a chance. So I think every last it's difficult.
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Speaker 1: Contivate's next opponent will be Poland's Igger sphere Tech, who upset nineteen seed Donovek seven five sixty three, So in the space of forty eight hours, the top ten women's seeds have been cut to just four Simona hullep Kicki Burtons, Ash Barty and Petra Kaviteva, which will be reduced to three when Barty and Kavita are play tomorrow AO Radio. As Mark Lawotti has told the AO Show, there's no safe place in the women's draw.
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Speaker 13: The seeds that are winning, like Hallop, I'm sure they're breathing a sigh of relief that they were getting through the draw. And it makes it really interesting as we get into the second week because it's potentially some uncharted word for some of these players, and you know they can swing freely and hopefully for them they can you know, maybe make a quarters and that's a that's a massive start to the year.
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Speaker 1: Tournament director Craig Tyley telling AO Extra the surprise results are making the competition more interesting.
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Speaker 11: It could be the bit of the changing of the god or not. We always say that he's year in the champions come back and do well. But I think the tennis was fantastic. There's some new face, some new names, and that's exciting for all of us and and it just puts us in a position this week again where there's going to be greater intrigue.
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Speaker 1: Russian young gun Andre Rublev has come from a set down against David Gofan to upstage the eleventh seed in four sets.
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Speaker 14: He was starting for the second set and he did one mistake. Then I played one good Ralli like this, like that, hope his break back, and then it's already a different story. I'm more pumped. He's a little bit more I think, disappointed that he didn't finish when he had a really good chance to finish, and then on a tabreak, I played well and it's one set all, and then you know, then I started to play. I feel better. I started to play better then he, and then the game was so close for both of us. But and then I was a little bit more lucky.
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Speaker 1: It sets up a fourth round clash with seventh seed Alex Zverev, who put a full stop on the campaign of Fernando Va Dasco, winning six two six two six four.
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Speaker 5: So far have been a good week for me. I think, as I said, it's going to be a processed and every match has been getting better. Today I think was the best match of far that I played, and I'm happy to kind of be through in straight sets against someone that we know they can play well on these courts and can't beat anybody. So I'm really happy about that.
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Speaker 1: Fifth C Dominic team had a tough match against Taylor Fritz but came through in four sets.
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Speaker 15: I feel pretty positive now as I had a pretty tough second round match, and I think I really raised my level today because against Taylor also our two meetings in the US Open was was very tough four sets as today he beat me in our last match at the Labor Cup. So I beat a very good opponent today, especially on a hard court, so that gives me a lot of confidence for the next.
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Speaker 1: Team will now take on Gailmon Fees, who accounted for qualifier Ernest Skulbas in three sets. Fourth C Danil Medvedev was untroubled by an injured Alexei Poprin. He'll play stan Va Rinka, who was gifted a walkover against John Isner, who was four to retire trailing a set and a double break.
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 1: Raphael Nadal breezed past compatriot Pablo Cornio buster in just ninety eight minutes, leaving him plenty of time to talk to the AO show following the win.
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Speaker 16: Bablo is one good friend of mine here on the tour, and yeah, I have been a great victory for me. Of course, feel sorry for him, but I think he's going to have a great season.
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Speaker 1: A thirteenth fourth round appearance here in Melbourne. How would you in your estimation? How are you playing? How are you finding this tournament compared to previous years.
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Speaker 16: Every year is different. No, I don't know las year is two that I have been playing great, but yeah, yeah, I am in the fourth round already, grey news that I make an important step forward today. I played my best match so far on the tournament without a doubt, so that's a very positive news.
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Speaker 1: In other results, women's fourth seed Samoda Hullep won in straight sets of a Julia Patinsova, leaving her as the second highest remaining seed in the tournament.
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Speaker 17: I'm not focusing on others, as you know, I know that at this level everything can happen, So that's why sometimes I'm a little bit strassed. Sometimes I'm relaxed because everything can happen. It's just a tournament, and I'm sure that for you guys, it's a little bit of shock when the top ten players are losing, but it's life and we cannot be one hundred percent every day, so we go ahead and if I'm still in the tournament, it's a good thing.
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Speaker 1: Happ has a fourth round date with Alyssa Merton, who overcame c C Bellas in three sets.
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Speaker 10: It's been an up and down road today, but I'm really happy that I pulled through.
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Speaker 15: And I think the first and the third set I really stepped up my game and that's how I have to play well.
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Speaker 1: Angelae Keerberg ground out a three set win over Camilla Georgy.
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Speaker 12: She really played good. Yeah two sets. Of course, in the first set she did a lot of anthos erros. I played not bad, but then it was a really tough fight and I'm really happy that I wanted at the end and three.
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Speaker 1: In men's doubles, Scoopsy and Gonzalez defeated number one seeds Kubo and mellow Ossie Duo, Duckworth and Polman's upset fifth seeds cool Hoff and Mechticch. In the women's second seeds, Babosh and Meldedevich defeated Barty and Gergis in straight sets top pairing Hit and Striche are also through to the third round, as are Mattex Sans and Kennan who's also still alive in the singles draw playing tomorrow. Well, they certainly don't call it Super Saturday for nothing. The fans were out in force on day six with the day night attendance record of ninety three thousand, seven hundred and nine and they've been loving every minute of it.
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Speaker 11: Corporate, have you got any predictions with the women's in the men's tournament, I'm going Barty Barty, of course all the way to your hewell and he can go all the light which you for a furthers. The way he plays is the symbol of things yos. Because he's Greek and Angreek, we are.
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Speaker 1: Kind of bias to coming from Switzerland.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, it must be Roger.
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Speaker 14: Four women's maybe uh Sipotilena from Okarna and Simon Ah.
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Speaker 2: How to you go past Jokovic?
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Speaker 13: Isn't it a great man?
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Speaker 2: How many times now?
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Speaker 10: If you had to choose one particular match which has been the highlight so far of the tournament, anything with Ruffian.
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Speaker 8: And now.
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Speaker 18: Should have won that hit him on a soccer ver Scoff because golf just kept fighting and just push through everything, and soccer made too many unforse erras.
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Speaker 1: Well. That's all from a memorable Day six of the Australian Open. Join me again tomorrow for the start of the fourth round. In the meantime, stay up to date with the latest news on og open dot com or tune into a radio. Be sure to subscribe and if you like what you hear, rate and review so more fans can enjoy the AO Show.
Speaker 1: My goodness, he's going to under man. Hello and welcome to the AO Show for Day six of the Australian Open. I'm John Huvenars bringing you the big stories every day of the main draw. Today on the show, King Curios eclips his current.
00:00:23
Speaker 2: This is just epic, man, I don't even know what's going on.
00:00:25
Speaker 1: Seed scatter as Pav punishes Plushkiba. Another upset here. I'm the Australian Open. They just keep on coming. Garby Gazumpspitelina puts.
00:00:35
Speaker 3: It away and she is into the fourth round.
00:00:39
Speaker 1: And Contivate conquers benchit.
00:00:41
Speaker 4: I was a little bit olwhelmed.
00:00:42
Speaker 1: Plus all the key results and we see what the fans have to say on a record breaking super Saturday.
00:00:48
Speaker 5: I'm going Bardi Bardi of course all the way to you and he can go all the way.
00:00:51
Speaker 1: But that's all coming up on the AO Show.
00:01:00
Speaker 6: Carry outs on his back. He's lying there Astralagles. He doesn't believe what he's done. Oh my goodness, this is gonna got down in Australian Open folklore. I'll be talking about it's for years.
00:01:17
Speaker 1: Well, another day, another super tie break, this time Nick Kurios battling through cramp and a grueling four hours twenty two minutes to edge out sixteen seed Current Kashanov in front of an adoring Melbourne Arena crowd. After winning the opening set six to two, The Australian was taken to four consecutive tiebreakers and had to overcome a mini break in the ten point tie break to finally eclipse the Russian six two seven six six seven six seven seven six males crazy.
00:01:49
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to say right now. That was insane. I don't know. I've got no words out feeling right now. None of that would have happened without my team, that's for sure. You know they supported me with all the time. But you guys are on the level again.
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Speaker 1: Well, the task gets even harder for curios, who will face world number one Rafael Nadal in the fourth round.
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Speaker 3: Fourhand from Pleshkavas into the net and where's the upsets?
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Speaker 1: Anastasia bablu Chenkova.
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Speaker 7: Has moved into the round of sixteen here at the Australian Open.
00:02:25
Speaker 1: The third round has continued to prove a poison chalice for the women's seeds, with Carolina Plishkiva among the high profile casualties. A Nastasia Pavlia Tchenkova took nearly two and a half hours to end the run of the number two seed in two tiebreak sets.
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Speaker 8: Well, what can I say, I'm really pleased with the match. First of all, I'm you know, I'm very we could say perfectionist, like sometimes I win matches and I still can be unhappy. I don't have this feeling today, and I'm really pleased, And not only that I've beaten Corolina also for the time, but also the way I played. I think overall is a really good match.
00:03:05
Speaker 1: With a candid self assessment.
00:03:07
Speaker 9: I think the biggest difference is, of course that you have much more matches here than you have on the normal tournaments, and it just goes for much longer. So I think somehow I'm not able to just find that game for a week or two, so I can play good one match, but not really four or five in a row so far. Well, I did it in the PUS, but not really consistently right now, And of course it's more pressure here, so I think everybody can feel it.
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Speaker 1: Probably a Chenkova will now face Angelie Kerber in the round of sixteen.
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Speaker 3: Serves deep in the box, Fidlina just gets a racket on it back behind her, Bosa puts it away.
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Speaker 1: And she is into the fourth round. Is she back?
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Speaker 3: The twice major champions been absent for a couple of years, but with steely determination she has Timlena Switdealina on center course.
00:04:03
Speaker 1: It was a tough day at the office for fifth seed Alena s Fittalina, who was demolished by a resurgent Garabinia and Mugarutha in just over an hour. The Spaniard intent on avoiding comparisons to her form that led to two major titles in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 10: I don't even remember how you know it was in Wimledon, since you know, a lot of things have happened, and I tried never to compare myself when I achieved a good result or something, because you know, every every year March and everything changes. So I just feel like good out there. I think it was a good match from my side, and I'm just taking that. I don't want to think about how did I play two years ago or none of that.
00:04:51
Speaker 11: About as combining as you are unlikely to see six forty nine minutes of brilliant.
00:04:58
Speaker 1: Nobody saw that there was more carnage earlier in the day, with Belinda Benchicic unable to muster more than a single game in a forty nine minute massacre by a net Contivate.
00:05:09
Speaker 7: I felt really good on court today. I feel like everything I did worked really well and I'm so happy with that performance today.
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Speaker 1: What do you think the basis was? Was it the serve, was that the ground strokes, everything seemed to be working well for you?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, definitely both.
00:05:24
Speaker 7: I think I served quite well and yeah I was aggressive, and yeah I think I was. I was doing the things I wanted to.
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Speaker 10: Do really well.
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Speaker 1: Benchicch left licking her wounds.
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Speaker 4: I was also thinking about this after the match. I was like, is it worse to do seven six in the third or six zero six one? I'm not sure. It's just like you didn't you never had a chance to win the match kind of and when you lose seven six year, maybe it's a little bit more how you say, bitter, because you had a chance. So I think every last it's difficult.
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Speaker 1: Contivate's next opponent will be Poland's Igger sphere Tech, who upset nineteen seed Donovek seven five sixty three, So in the space of forty eight hours, the top ten women's seeds have been cut to just four Simona hullep Kicki Burtons, Ash Barty and Petra Kaviteva, which will be reduced to three when Barty and Kavita are play tomorrow AO Radio. As Mark Lawotti has told the AO Show, there's no safe place in the women's draw.
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Speaker 13: The seeds that are winning, like Hallop, I'm sure they're breathing a sigh of relief that they were getting through the draw. And it makes it really interesting as we get into the second week because it's potentially some uncharted word for some of these players, and you know they can swing freely and hopefully for them they can you know, maybe make a quarters and that's a that's a massive start to the year.
00:06:44
Speaker 1: Tournament director Craig Tyley telling AO Extra the surprise results are making the competition more interesting.
00:06:50
Speaker 11: It could be the bit of the changing of the god or not. We always say that he's year in the champions come back and do well. But I think the tennis was fantastic. There's some new face, some new names, and that's exciting for all of us and and it just puts us in a position this week again where there's going to be greater intrigue.
00:07:09
Speaker 1: Russian young gun Andre Rublev has come from a set down against David Gofan to upstage the eleventh seed in four sets.
00:07:15
Speaker 14: He was starting for the second set and he did one mistake. Then I played one good Ralli like this, like that, hope his break back, and then it's already a different story. I'm more pumped. He's a little bit more I think, disappointed that he didn't finish when he had a really good chance to finish, and then on a tabreak, I played well and it's one set all, and then you know, then I started to play. I feel better. I started to play better then he, and then the game was so close for both of us. But and then I was a little bit more lucky.
00:07:44
Speaker 1: It sets up a fourth round clash with seventh seed Alex Zverev, who put a full stop on the campaign of Fernando Va Dasco, winning six two six two six four.
00:07:53
Speaker 5: So far have been a good week for me. I think, as I said, it's going to be a processed and every match has been getting better. Today I think was the best match of far that I played, and I'm happy to kind of be through in straight sets against someone that we know they can play well on these courts and can't beat anybody. So I'm really happy about that.
00:08:12
Speaker 1: Fifth C Dominic team had a tough match against Taylor Fritz but came through in four sets.
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Speaker 15: I feel pretty positive now as I had a pretty tough second round match, and I think I really raised my level today because against Taylor also our two meetings in the US Open was was very tough four sets as today he beat me in our last match at the Labor Cup. So I beat a very good opponent today, especially on a hard court, so that gives me a lot of confidence for the next.
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Speaker 1: Team will now take on Gailmon Fees, who accounted for qualifier Ernest Skulbas in three sets. Fourth C Danil Medvedev was untroubled by an injured Alexei Poprin. He'll play stan Va Rinka, who was gifted a walkover against John Isner, who was four to retire trailing a set and a double break.
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 1: Raphael Nadal breezed past compatriot Pablo Cornio buster in just ninety eight minutes, leaving him plenty of time to talk to the AO show following the win.
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Speaker 16: Bablo is one good friend of mine here on the tour, and yeah, I have been a great victory for me. Of course, feel sorry for him, but I think he's going to have a great season.
00:09:25
Speaker 1: A thirteenth fourth round appearance here in Melbourne. How would you in your estimation? How are you playing? How are you finding this tournament compared to previous years.
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Speaker 16: Every year is different. No, I don't know las year is two that I have been playing great, but yeah, yeah, I am in the fourth round already, grey news that I make an important step forward today. I played my best match so far on the tournament without a doubt, so that's a very positive news.
00:09:50
Speaker 1: In other results, women's fourth seed Samoda Hullep won in straight sets of a Julia Patinsova, leaving her as the second highest remaining seed in the tournament.
00:09:59
Speaker 17: I'm not focusing on others, as you know, I know that at this level everything can happen, So that's why sometimes I'm a little bit strassed. Sometimes I'm relaxed because everything can happen. It's just a tournament, and I'm sure that for you guys, it's a little bit of shock when the top ten players are losing, but it's life and we cannot be one hundred percent every day, so we go ahead and if I'm still in the tournament, it's a good thing.
00:10:28
Speaker 1: Happ has a fourth round date with Alyssa Merton, who overcame c C Bellas in three sets.
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Speaker 10: It's been an up and down road today, but I'm really happy that I pulled through.
00:10:37
Speaker 15: And I think the first and the third set I really stepped up my game and that's how I have to play well.
00:10:42
Speaker 1: Angelae Keerberg ground out a three set win over Camilla Georgy.
00:10:45
Speaker 12: She really played good. Yeah two sets. Of course, in the first set she did a lot of anthos erros. I played not bad, but then it was a really tough fight and I'm really happy that I wanted at the end and three.
00:11:00
Speaker 1: In men's doubles, Scoopsy and Gonzalez defeated number one seeds Kubo and mellow Ossie Duo, Duckworth and Polman's upset fifth seeds cool Hoff and Mechticch. In the women's second seeds, Babosh and Meldedevich defeated Barty and Gergis in straight sets top pairing Hit and Striche are also through to the third round, as are Mattex Sans and Kennan who's also still alive in the singles draw playing tomorrow. Well, they certainly don't call it Super Saturday for nothing. The fans were out in force on day six with the day night attendance record of ninety three thousand, seven hundred and nine and they've been loving every minute of it.
00:11:42
Speaker 11: Corporate, have you got any predictions with the women's in the men's tournament, I'm going Barty Barty, of course all the way to your hewell and he can go all the light which you for a furthers. The way he plays is the symbol of things yos. Because he's Greek and Angreek, we are.
00:11:57
Speaker 1: Kind of bias to coming from Switzerland.
00:11:59
Speaker 2: Sorry, it must be Roger.
00:12:00
Speaker 14: Four women's maybe uh Sipotilena from Okarna and Simon Ah.
00:12:05
Speaker 2: How to you go past Jokovic?
00:12:06
Speaker 13: Isn't it a great man?
00:12:08
Speaker 2: How many times now?
00:12:09
Speaker 10: If you had to choose one particular match which has been the highlight so far of the tournament, anything with Ruffian.
00:12:15
Speaker 8: And now.
00:12:17
Speaker 18: Should have won that hit him on a soccer ver Scoff because golf just kept fighting and just push through everything, and soccer made too many unforse erras.
00:12:31
Speaker 1: Well. That's all from a memorable Day six of the Australian Open. Join me again tomorrow for the start of the fourth round. In the meantime, stay up to date with the latest news on og open dot com or tune into a radio. Be sure to subscribe and if you like what you hear, rate and review so more fans can enjoy the AO Show.
