Azarenka mengalahkan unggulan ke-25 dari Ceko itu dengan angka 6-4, 6-4 dalam pertandingan di Melbourne Park, Sabtu, dan maju ke babak 16 besar.
Seperti dilansir kantor berita AFP, di putaran keempat dia akan berhadapan dengan finalis tahun lalu, unggulan ke-11 Dominika Cibulkova.
Mantan petenis nomor satu dunia Azarenka (25) tidak diunggulkan tahun ini karena dia kembali setelah mengalami masalah pada 2014, saat ia melawan cedera dan depresi sehingga peringkatnya melorot ke urutan 44. (Uu.A008)
wo-time
Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka maintained her Melbourne
Park comeback on Saturday with a straight sets win over Barbora
Zahlavova Strycova to reach the last 16.
Azarenka downed the Czech 25th seed 6-4, 6-4 to set up a fourth-round meeting with last year's finalist Dominika Cibulkova, seeded 11.
Former world No. 1 Azarenka, 25, is unseeded this year as she returns from a horror 2014 which saw her battling injury and depression as her ranking slid to 44.
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Azarenka downed the Czech 25th seed 6-4, 6-4 to set up a fourth-round meeting with last year's finalist Dominika Cibulkova, seeded 11.
Former world No. 1 Azarenka, 25, is unseeded this year as she returns from a horror 2014 which saw her battling injury and depression as her ranking slid to 44.
- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/sport/tennis/story/australian-open-azarenka-continues-fine-comeback-run-and-advances-last-16-20#sthash.JsZDGgk9.dpuf
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