Australian Open 2023: Day five on Friday

MELBOURNE, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Highlights of the fifth day of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Friday, all times local (GMT +11):

1240 KREJCIKOVA TOO GOOD FOR KALININA

Czech 20th seed Barbora Krejcikova, the 2021 French Open champion, began proceedings on Rod Laver Arena with a 6-2 6-3 win over Anhelina Kalinina to reach the fourth round.

Krejcikova raced to a 5-0 lead before dropping her serve but she recovered from the blip to go up in the contest on her fifth set point before holding firm in the next to stay on course for a potential clash with third seed Jessica Pegula.

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Murray grinds down Kokkinakis in late-night-epic read more

Victorious Murray says 4am finishes are farcical read more

Exhausted Murray has energy to blast officials after late night finish read more

Second seed Jabeur sent packing by Vondrousova in second round read more

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American Mmoh in dreamland after lucky break read more

Zverev fulfils low expectations with second-round exit read more

Bird takes aim at Zverev on messy day for German read more

Brooksby delivers Ruud shock to send second seed crashing read more

Ruud defends warm-up tour with Nadal after early Australian Open exit read more

Nadal sidelined for 6-8 weeks with hip flexor injury read more

American Volynets derives strength from family in Ukraine read more

Chardy drops the ball and fumes at chair umpire during defeat read more

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1116 PLAY UNDERWAY AT MELBOURNE PARK

Third-round action began as scheduled on a sunny fifth day at the year’s first Grand Slam, after heat and rain delays had caused havoc with the schedule earlier in the week.

The weather forecast looks good, with a high of 23 degrees Celsius (73.4 degrees Fahrenheit).

Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Melbourne; Editing by Jacqueline Wong

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