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Friday, January 20th, 2012 at 6:45 am , filed under Australian Open by Terry Lawrence
Top seeded players in the 2012 Australian Open, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer have advanced into the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open on Friday, January 20, 2012, in the season first Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne.
World No.2, Rafael Nadal in his third round encounter of the 2012 Australian open has dispatched Slovakia world No.119, Lukas Lacko in straight sets with a score line of 6-2 6-4 6-2 to book his place in the final-16 at Melbourne. Nadal fired 81% points in his first serve and hitting 27 winners and received 89 points to complete the match in 1 hour and 55 minutes.
Nadal in his pre-quarterfinals will be facing the winners between American, John Isner or Feliciano Lopez.
World No.3, Roger Federer has thrashed out the hard hitting men Ivo Karlovic with 7-6 (6), 7-5, 6-3 to advance into the pre quarterfinals of the 2012 Australian Open in 2 hours and 17 minutes of play.
16-times grand slam champion, Federer has worked hard in his opening set against Karlovic has saved a set point in the tiebreaker to win the first set in 53 minutes hitting 22-aces and fired 6 aces and in second set, Federer earned the breakthrough just at the in the twelfth game to win the second-set
Federer in finals set demonstrated all his command over Karlovic beating him with 7-6 (8-6) 7-5 6-3 to advance into the final-16 of the 2012 Australian Open.
Federer in his fourth round encounter will be clashing with the winner of the match between the local player and Australian raising star, Bernard Tomic and Ukrainian No.13, Alexandr Dolgopolo.
Tags: 2012 Australian Open, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer
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