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Melbourne (AP) - Co-favorite Daniil Medwedew was able to avert a third round at the Australian Open with a lot of effort.

The fourth in the world rankings defeated the Serb Filip Krajinovic 6: 3, 6: 3, 4: 6, 3: 6, 6: 0 in Melbourne and made it to the round of 16.

Two days after his 25th birthday, the Russian needed 3:06 hours for his success.

In the round of 16 he will now face the American Mackenzie McDonald.

For Medvedev it was the 17th win in a row.

At the end of last tennis year, the Russian had won the Masters 1000 event in Paris and the ATP Finals in London.

At the beginning of this season he won the ATP Cup together with his compatriot Andrej Rublev and won all of his four singles.

Co-favorite Jelina Switolina made it to the round of 16 without much effort.

The 26-year-old Ukrainian won 6: 4, 6: 0 against the Kazakh Julia Putinzewa in Melbourne.

Number five seeded Switolina will now face American Jessica Pegula in the first Grand Slam tournament of the tennis season.

Karolina Pliskova was eliminated.

The number six seeded Czech lost to her compatriot Karolina Muchova 5: 7, 5: 7 and gave up a 5: 0 lead in the second set.

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On the other hand, secret favorite Kaia Kanepi is somewhat surprisingly eliminated.

The Estonian, who eliminated defending champion Sofia Kenin from the USA in the second round, lost to the Croatian Donna Vekic 7: 5, 6: 7 (5: 7), 4: 6 and even missed a match point in the second set.

Vekic will now face Jennifer Brady from the USA in the round of 16.

In the doubles competition, Fed Cup player Laura Siegemund reached the round of 16.

The 32-year-old Swabian won against the Ukrainian tennis duo Kateryna Bondarenko and Nadija Kitschenok 6: 4, 6: 2 alongside the Russian Vera Swonarewa.

Last year Siegemund and Swonarewa surprisingly won the title at the US Open.

In the singles, Siegemund in Melbourne failed in the first round against the American top favorite Serena Williams.

All German women are no longer in the singles.

Alexander Zverev will fight for the quarter-finals on Sunday.

The German number one plays against the Serbian Dusan Lajovic.

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Then, as on Saturday, there will be no spectators on the facility in Melbourne Park.

Due to a corona outbreak in a hotel at the airport, Melbourne is again in a tough lockdown for five days.

The Australian Open can go on because the tennis professionals have been classified in the category of necessary professions.

However, unlike in the first few days, fans are not allowed on the system.

The authorities in Melbourne continue to try to understand the contacts of the people who tested positive.

After all, there was only one positive case on Saturday.

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