Published: January 18, 2019
- Home hope beats Maria Sakkari 7-5, 6-1
- Plays down injury fears after needing medical timeout
Ashleigh Barty survived a spirited challenge from Maria Sakkari to scrap her way into the Australian Open fourth round for the first time. Australia’s big title hope needed a medical time-out after the first set to treat an apparent abdominal strain but returned to complete a hard-fought 7-5, 6-1 third-round win over the tough Greek.
Barty thundered down 13 aces and dropped serve just once, but looked ginger at times with her movement, no doubt the result of a gruelling workload of eight matches in the past 12 days. The 22-year-old broke Sakkari in the 12th game to snatch a tight first set before running away with the second set and the match, prevailing after one hour and 22 minutes under a closed roof at Rod Laver Arena.
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