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HIGHLIGHTS-Day five at the Australian Open

ByReuters

Published 20/01/2017 at 00:49 GMT

Latest news from the five day of the Australian Open tennis championships on Friday (all times GMT):

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0030 RAIN MEANS PLAY RESTRICTED TO TWO MAIN SHOWCOURTS
Rain has ensured that play has only begun on the two main showcourts on Rod Laver Arena and Margaret Court Arena, though the roof is open on Hisense Arena and play expected to begin shortly.
0010 PLAYERS WARMING UP IN COOL CONDITIONS
Cool temperatures under 19 degrees Celsius have greeted the players in the third round and with rain punctuating the day, the roof on the main court on Rod Laver Arena is closed.
Former top-10 player Eugenie Bouchard opens proceedings on the main court against American Coco Vandeweghe, while women's champion Angelique Kerber will be hoping the wrinkles that have punctuated her first two matches are gone against Kristyna Pliskova.
ORDER OF PLAY (prefix denotes seeding)
ROD LAVER ARENA
Eugenie Bouchard (Canada) v Coco Vandeweghe (U.S.)
1-Angelique Kerber (Germany) v Kristyna Pliskova (Czech Republic)
4-Stan Wawrinka (Switzerland) v 29-Viktor Troicki (Serbia)
Not before 0800 GMT:
Ashleigh Barty (Australia) v Mona Barthel (Germany)
10-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) v 17-Roger Federer (Switzerland)
MARGARET COURT ARENA
11-Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) v 24-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia)
12-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) v 23-Jack Sock (U.S.)
Duan Yingying (China) v 13-Venus Williams (U.S.)
Not before 0800 GMT:
Lukas Lacko (Slovakia) v 5-Kei Nishikori (Japan)
32-Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia) v 7-Garbine Muguruza (Spain)
HISENSE ARENA
Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) v 8-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia)
Not before 0300 GMT:
1-Andy Murray (Britain) v 31-Sam Querrey (U.S.)
Not before 0500 GMT:
27-Bernard Tomic (Australia) v Daniel Evans (Britain)
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