• Men's box Third round

Those who believe that tennis is a retreating sport should shop around the Australian Open. There the racket continues to live a golden age, something evident on a Sunday - National Day of Australia - with the facilities full of spectators in which it is the Grand Slam that best treats them. Because not everything is tennis: at sunset the option was to see Roger Federer or walk to the other end of the complex to enjoy Fatboy Slim. On Wednesday the dilemma will be between tennis and Billy Idol.

It is not a dilemma for Djokovic, clearly focused on tennis and that gave a further example of the comfort with which he plays in Melbourne, where he seeks an eighth unprecedented title in the professional era. A 6-3, 6-4 and 6-4 reached him to dispatch the Argentine Diego Schwartzman, who had bequeathed to eighths without yielding a set.

'The Peque' fought, but the Serbian defeated him with a shocking authority, to the point that in the subsequent press conference he spent more time talking about how his little son is playing tennis than the game he had just won. In fourths it will be with the recovered Canadian Milos Raonic, winner of Croatian Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-3 and 7-5.

"I was still before Millman"

The placidity with which Djokovic and Rafael Nadal advance contrasts with the shocks Roger Federer has been experiencing. The Swiss won miraculously 10-8 in the super 'tie break' of the fifth set his third round match against Australian John Millman, and today he also doubted against a rival of lower rank, the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics: he delivered the initial set before win 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 and 6-2. "I suffered a little at the beginning, I think I was still in the game with Millman," admitted the Swiss, who will be measured on Tuesday to Tennys Sandgren, winner of the histrionic Fabio Fognini.

Among women, the dream of Coco Gauff, the American quinceañera who has been shaking a circuit in need of charisma, ended. His compatriot Sofia Kenin defeated her 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 and 6-0.

Ashleigh Barty and Petra Kvitova also advanced to the quarter, exactly the same as they will look for on Monday, Nadal and Garbiñe Muguruza. The Dutch Kiki Bertens will be the opponent of Muguruza in the Spanish dawn, while Nadal will star in the Australian night the most anticipated match of the tournament by the locals: the talented and incorrigible Nick Kyrgios will test it on the central court.

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