Towering American John Isner, who has fired a tournament-leading 101 aces, will provide the fireworks against one of the game’s best retrievers, eighth-seed David Ferrer, in the only singles match on Hisense Arena.
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Yesterday Murray was back on court training as he prepared for his fourth round match against Bernard Tomic.
Ivanovic was visibly concerned after the incident and showed enormous mental strength to return to court in a 4-6 6-4 6-4 loss to Keys.
Stadium announcer Craig Willis told the Rod Laver Arena crowd: “Nigel Sears had a turn, as we all saw”.
Tomic, who has made more noise off the court than on it in his career so far, said the 17-time Grand Slam victor was “nowhere near” the world number one – and insisted his own game was top-eight material. I just can’t believe something like that happened a few days ago.
Tomic was reacting to Federer’s comments at this month’s Brisbane International when he said the 23-year-old needed to work hard all year if he wants to be a top-10 player.
Asked if he was always going to play against Tomic following the events over the weekend, Murray added: “Obviously it depended on Nigel’s health”.
“He’ll get better. He’ll be a top-10 player, for sure”.
Britain’s Andy Murray has booked his spot in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the seventh year in a row after beating local hope Bernard Tomich in straight sets. “It’s about being consistent”.
Murray controlled the tiebreaker from the start and earned four match points before putting Tomic away for good.
Tomic also said he believed some more consistency in his play would see him achieve his goal.
‘GET OFF THE PHONE!’ Andy Murray yelled at someone in his player’s box for being on the phone.
“You have to take the ball to him, play aggressive, but not too aggressive, and rally at the right time”.
Scottish tennis star Andy Murray dropped his first set of this year’s Australian Open on Saturday, before putting on the afterburners to seal a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Joao Sousa.
Key’s win sets the 15th seed up with a crack at the quarter-finals if she can get past Chinese giant-killer Zhang Shuai, who knocked out world number two Simona Halep and on Saturday despatched America’s Varvara Lepchenko.
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Monfils beat Russian Andrey Kuznetsov in four sets but injured a hand when attempting an acrobatic dive.
