Australian Open: De Minaur through to fourth round for the third time year in a row

Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 10 seed, reached the last 16 of the Australian Open by defeating Italian qualifier Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 at Melbourne Park on Friday.

This is the third year in a row that the Australian is into the second week of his home Grand Slam but he will be hoping to make the quarter-finals for the first time in Melbourne.

De Minaur, ranked No 10, will play the winner of the match between American Sebastian Korda, the No 29 seed, and Russian Andrey Rublev, the No 5 seed, next.

In the previous rounds, the Australian benefited from the retirement of Canadian Milos Raonic (6-7 (6), 6-3, 2-0) and won against Italian Matteo Arnaldi (6-3, 6-0, 6-3).

Cobolli, ranked No 100, beat Chilean Nicolas Jarry, the No 18 seed (6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5) and Russian Pavel Kotov (7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2) earlier in the week.

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other third-round matches (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58,910,000):

• Stefanos Tsitsipas (7) beat Luca Van Assche: 6-3, 6-0, 6-4
• Taylor Fritz (12) beat Fabian Marozsan: 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
• Jannik Sinner (4) beat Sebastian Baez (26): 6-0, 6-1, 6-3
• Karen Khachanov (15) beat Tomas Machac: 6-4, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (5)
• Alexander Zverev vs. Alex Michelsen
• Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Daniil Medvedev
• Cameron Norrie vs. Casper Ruud
• Grigor Dimitrov vs. Nuno Borges
• Arthur Cazaux vs. Tallon Griekspoor
• Juncheng Shang vs. Carlos Alcaraz
• Ugo Humbert vs. Hubert Hurkacz
• Tommy Paul vs. Miomir Kecmanovic
• Sebastian Korda vs. Andrey Rublev
• Novak Djokovic vs. Tomas Martin Etcheverry
• Adrian Mannarino vs. Ben Shelton