Australian Open: Borges upsets Dimitrov to reach fourth round

Portugal’s Nuno Borges edged out Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the No 13 seed, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (6) to reach the last 16 of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Saturday.

Borges, ranked No 69 in the world, will play Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 3 seed, next. This is the first time that the Portuguese player is through to the second week at a Grand Slam.

The 26-year-old, whose win over Dimitrov was also the biggest of his career in terms of ranking, had never been past the second round at a Major previously.

He becomes the first from his country to make the last 16 at the Australian Open and the second Portuguese to make the second week at a Slam.

In the earlier rounds, the Portuguese won against German Maximilian Marterer (7-5, 7-6 (3), 6-2) and Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the No 23 seed (7-6 (7), 6-3, 6-3).

Dimitrov, ranked No 13 in the world and winner in Brisbane coming into this week, defeated Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1), 6-2) and edged out Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4) earlier in the week.

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

• Cameron Norrie (19) beat Casper Ruud (11): 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-3
• Carlos Alcaraz (2) beat Juncheng Shang (WC): 6-1, 6-1, 1-0 ret.
• Arthur Cazaux (WC) beat Tallon Griekspoor (28): 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
• Hubert Hurkacz (9) beat Ugo Humbert (21): 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-3
• Miomir Kecmanovic beat Tommy Paul (14): 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-0
• Andrey Rublev (5) beat Sebastian Korda (29): 6-2, 7-6 (6), 6-4
• Alex De Minaur (10) beat Flavio Cobolli (Q): 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
• Novak Djokovic (1) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry (30): 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (2)
• Adrian Mannarino (20) beat Ben Shelton (16): 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4
• 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

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