Confident favorites in the round of 16 of the Ozi Open, Alkaras and Sabaljenka easily reach the quarterfinals

Arina Sabalenko and Carlos Alcaraz clear fourth hurdle at Ozzie Open, end for Olga and Donna in Melbourne

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Arina easily won the fourth round match, Photo: REUTERS
Arina easily won the fourth round match, Photo: REUTERS
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In Melbourne, the day so far at the Australian Open has been dominated by the favorites, with only Swiss Belinda Bencic offering stronger resistance to American Coco Gauff - 5:7, 6:2, 6:1.

The world's number one player, the defending Belarusian champion Arina Sabaljenka, easily defeated Russian teenager Mira Andreeva - 6:1, 6:2 to advance to the quarterfinals.

The Croatian's difficult and lengthy previous matches helped Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenko defeat Dona Vekić from Osijek - 7:6, 6:0.

Olga Danilović was unable to pull off another surprise either, as Spaniard Paula Badosa won in straight sets - 6:1, 7:6.

And 12th seed American Tommy Paul defeated Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina in straight sets - 6:1, 6:1, 6:1, to advance to the quarterfinals.

Third favorite Carlos Alcaraz is also in the mix. The Spaniard was defeated by Britain's Jack Draper after the second set - 7:5, 6:1.

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