HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-Australian Open day five

HIGHLIGHTS-Tennis-Australian Open day five

Highlights of Friday's fifth day of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year (all times GMT):

0344 FEDERER TOO GOOD FOR UNSEEDED FRITZ

Holder Rogerer Federer cruised past unseeded American Taylor Fritz 6-2 7-5 6-2 in 88 minutes for his third consecutive straight-sets win in this year's tournament.

0320 BERDYCH QUELLS SCHWARTZMAN CHALLENGE

Tomas Berdych dropped the opening set but recovered to overcome Diego Schwartzman 5-7 6-3 7-5 6-4. The Czech missed the last six months of 2018 due to a back issue but has since returned to form, reaching the final of the Qatar Open earlier this month.

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Barty eases into fourth round with win over Sakkari

Djokovic dominates Tsonga re-match to reach third round

Serena juggles business, motherhood before beating Bouchard

Australia Davis Cup captain Hewitt says threatened by Tomic

Top seed Halep digs deep against impressive Kenin to advance

Wasteful Zverev reaches third round after five-set battle

Halep hopes tough matches will provide route to rhythm

Raonic overcomes Wawrinka in pulsating four-setter

Bolt gives Australia best start to home Grand Slam in 15 years

Osaka bashes through to third round

Seventh seed Thiem pulls out due to illness

Osaka coy on niggle after reaching third round

Nishikori has another great escape to reach third round

Graf backs Williams to surpass Court's Grand Slam record

Confident Shapovalov primed to step up against Djokovic

Sharapova accepts underdog tag ahead of Wozniacki clash

0310 TSITSIPAS POWERS PAST BASILASHVILI

Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3 3-6 7-6(7) 6-4 to reach the last 16 at Melbourne for the first time and equal his best Grand Slam result.

0150 BARTY WINS FIRST MATCH OF THE DAY

Australia's Ashleigh Barty beat Maria Sakkari 7-5 6-1 under a closed roof at Rod Laver Arena following morning showers.

The temperature at Melbourne Park was hovering around the 25 degrees Celsius mark on a cloudy day. (Compiled by Shrivathsa Sridhar; Editing by)

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