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The Australian will meet the Austrian in the third round of the Australian Championship. Shpobalov vs. Uza Eliasim. Djokovic v. Fritz


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Kirius: "It hurts my body just to think about having to play against Tim"

The Australian will meet the Austrian in the third round of the Australian Championship.

Shpobalov vs. Uza Eliasim.

Djokovic v. Fritz

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  • Nick Kirius

  • Dominic Tim

  • Novak Djokovic

  • Sasha Zebrav

  • Serena Williams

  • Diego Schwartzman

  • Anastasia Potapova

  • Felix Uja Eliasim

  • Dennis Shapovalov

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Will stop Kirius' journey?

Tim (Photo: Reuters)

The fifth day and with it the third round of the Australian Championship will kick off tonight (between Thursday and Friday, live broadcasts starting at 2pm on Eurosport, Eurosport 2 and Eurosport Player).



The focus will be on the intriguing battle between Dominic Tim and Nick Kirius, but Sasha Zebrav, Novak Djokovic and others are also looking forward to challenging games.

For the women, Serena will play against Russia's Anastasia Potapova, Simona Halp hopes to do it more smoothly than in the previous round and also the Osaka and Iga speeches that Biontek will play.

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The perhaps interesting battle in the entire third round will take place in the morning and will bring together Dominic Tim (3) and Nick Kirius, around 11: 00-10: 00 Israel time.

The Australian is ranked 47th in the world and returns to tennis after not playing in the entire Corona period.

Kirius had to work very hard in the second round and won 4: 6 in the fifth set with tremendous support from the crowd.

He will hope to surprise the finalist from last year, whom he met only once and retired 4: 3 behind in Nice 2015. Kirius said after his hard-fought victory in the second round: "I feel old and must drink a glass of red wine. It hurts me just to think that I should play Against Tim. "

The winner of this match will play against Gregor Dimitrov (18) or Pablo Carnio Busta (15) in the quarterfinals.



Last year's champion and No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic will play at noon, around 11:00 Israel time, against American Taylor Fritz (27).

It was the third meeting between the two after they played against each other twice in 2019 and in both cases it was on clay.

In both cases Djokovic won.

The winner will play in the quarterfinals against Merton Pochovic or Milos Raunic (14).



Sasha Zebrav, ranked sixth, went through the first two rounds against American opponents and dropped one set.

He will now meet 32-year-old veteran Adrian Manarino, who is ranked 36th in the world.

This will be the sixth meeting between them with the balance standing at 0: 5 in favor of Zebrav, including three wins last year, but two of them were after very difficult and long games.

The winner will play in the next round against Pedro Martinez or Dusan Lajovic (23).



Another very intriguing encounter will open the night session at Margaret Kurt Stadium when Dennis Shapovalov (11) meets Felix Uja Eliassim (20) for the Kennedy Derby.

Povalov defeated Uja Eliasim in two of the three meetings held between them so far, including 1: 6, 1: 6, 4: 6 at the United States Championships two years ago.

The winner is waiting for a date with Diego Schwartzman (8) or Aslan Kratzb in the next round.

Barely survived the second round, try to do it smoother this time.

The Alps (Photo: Reuters)

women

Simona Halep, ranked second, barely survived and thanks to a lot of character the big fight against Ayala Tomlianovich in the second round.

Now another challenging rival awaits Romania in the form of Russia's Veronica Kodermatova, who is ranked 36th in the world.

This will be the first meeting between the two and the winner will probably have a very difficult game in the round of 16 against Iga of the great Biotech (15), if she passes the French Fiona Pro.



Naomi Osaka lost just eight games in its first two games of the tournament and now a tough game awaits the Japanese against Tunisian tennis player Rape Jabor (27), who is in great shape.

The winner will meet Garbinia Mugurosa (14) or Zarina Diaz in the quarterfinals.



Serena Williams (10) looks great so far in the tournament and now faces such an unexpected challenge in the person of Anastasia Potapova.

The 19-year-old Russian is very young, but has already managed to be a prodigy, succeed and disappear a bit and it seems that now she may finally make her leap.

A victory against the legend, who is 20 years older than her, will be a good leap.

The winner has a game against Arena Sabalenka (7) or Ann Lee.



Czech Marta Vandrushova (19) will play against Sorana Kirsta when the winner meets Su Wei HaSiya or Sara Arani.

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