Australian Open: Yastremska downs Navarro to make last 16

Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska reached the last 16 of the Australian Open by winning against American Emma Navarro, the No 27 seed, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 at Melbourne Park on Saturday night.

Yastremska, ranked No 93, will play the winner of the match between Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 11 seed, and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, the No 18 seed, next.

The Ukrainian beat No 7 seed Marketa Vondrousova (6-1, 6-2) and Frenchwoman Varvara Gracheva (6-3, 6-2) ahead of her victory.

In the previous rounds, Navarro, ranked No 26, edged out Chinese Xiyu Wang (6-1, 6-7 (5), 7-5) and won against Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto (4-6, 6-3, 6-3).

Melbourne (Grand Slam), other third-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 58.910.000, most recent results first):

• Elina Svitolina vs. Viktorija Golubic
• Iga Swiatek vs. Linda Noskova
• Jelena Ostapenko vs. Victoria Azarenka
• Anna Blinkova vs. Jasmine Paolini
• Oceane Dodin vs. Clara Burel
• Qinwen Zheng vs. Yafan Wang: saturday
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Sloane Stephens: saturday
• Barbora Krejcikova (9) beat Storm Hunter (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-3
• Maria Timofeeva (Q) beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (10): 7-6 (7), 6-3
• Magdalena Frech beat Anastasia Zakharova (Q): 4-6, 7-5, 6-4
• Coco Gauff (4) beat Alycia Parks: 6-0, 6-2
• Marta Kostyuk beat Elina Avanesyan: 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
• Mirra Andreeva beat Diane Parry: 1-6, 6-1, 7-6 (5)
• Aryna Sabalenka (2) beat Lesia Tsurenko (28): 6-0, 6-0
• Amanda Anisimova beat Paula Badosa: 7-5, 6-4