Aaaand... BREATHE! Ash Barty is through to the quarter-finals of the AusOpen - and she snapped a 32-year Aussie drought in the process. More here:
A tired-looking Federer surprisingly dropped the opening set to the unseeded Hungarian, but after that was nearly untouchable, ending up a 4-6 6-1 6-2 6-2 winner.
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