Highlights: Day five at the Australian Open

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Tennis – Australian Open – Third Round – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia – January 24, 2020 Australia’s Ashleigh Barty in action during the match against Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

January 24, 2020

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Highlights of the fifth day at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Friday (times AEDT; GMT+11):

1458 END OF THE ROAD FOR WOZNIACKI AFTER JABEUR LOSS

Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur beat former world number one Caroline Wozniacki 7-5 3-6 7-5 in the third round to send the 2018 champion into retirement.

Wozniacki has said the Australian Open would be her final tournament as she looks forward to the next stage of her life with her husband of seven months, ex-NBA All Star David Lee.

Earlier, seventh seed Petra Kvitova blasted past Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-1 6-2 in 58 minutes.

1352 SCHWARTZMAN SHOWS HIS FUNNY SIDE

Diego Schwartzman was in a humorous mood following his win over Dusan Lajovic, when asked in a courtside interview about his potential fourth-round meeting with Yoshihito Nishioka or world number two Novak Djokovic.

“I just know Nishioka, because he is my size,” Schwartzman said of the Japanese 24-year-old, who like him is also 5ft 7in. “The other guy I really don’t know.”

1328 SCHWARTZMAN SURGES PAST LAJOVIC

Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman staved off a late comeback attempt by Dusan Lajovic to beat the Serb 6-2 6-3 7-6(7) and reach the last 16 for the second time, matching his best performance at Melbourne Park.

1231 BARTY ROARS INTO FOURTH ROUND

World number one Ash Barty kept alive hopes of a local champion for the first time since 1978 with a 6-3 6-2 demolition of 29th-seed Elena Rybakina.

Barty needed just 78 minutes to beat the 20-year-old from Kazakhstan to advance to the fourth round.

1100 PLAY STARTS ON TIME WITH DOUBLES

Play started on time with most of the outside courts hosting first round doubles matches, while world number one Ash Barty opens the third round in the singles on Rod Laver Arena against Kazakhstan’s 29th-seed Elena Rybakina.

Women’s champion Naomi Osaka opens the evening session against American teenager Cori Gauff in arguably the singles clash of the day on the showcourts.

After rain caused delays for the outside courts early on Thursday the weather forecast was for a high of 24 Celsius (75.2 Fahrenheit) but with breezy conditions still to test players at Melbourne Park.

(Compiled by Greg Stutchbury and Shrivathsa Sridhar; Editing by Sam Holmes and Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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