HIGHLIGHTS-Day six at the Australian Open

1016 RAONIC DOWNS SIMON TO REACH FOURTH ROUND

Third seed Milos Raonic defeats French 25th seed Gilles Simon 6-2 7-6(5) 3-6 6-3 to advance to the fourth round, where he will face Spanish 13th seed Roberto Bautista Agut.

1012 MONFILS EASES INTO FOURTH ROUND

Sixth seed Gael Monfils secured a routine third round 6-3 7-6(1) 6-4 victory over Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber in an hour and 55 minutes. The Frenchman faces Spanish ninth seed Rafa Nadal in the next round.

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Raonic recovers from Simon stumble to reach fourth round

Nadal holds off rising talent Zverev to reach last 16

Konta calls the shots to ease into fourth round

Serena marches on to reach fourth round

Agassi backs Djokovic to rebound quickly

Seed-killer Makarova bundles out Cibulkova

Give Djokovic a break, Murray tells Serb's critics

0915 NADAL CLINCHES FOUR-HOUR THRILLER

Spanish ninth seed Rafael Nadal, a 14-times grand slam champion, was pushed to his limits by 19-year-old Alexander Zverev but pulled through to beat the German 4-6 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 6-2 in four hours and 15 minutes.

0852 AGUT REACHES FOURTH ROUND

Spanish 13th seed Roberto Bautista Agut beats compatriot David Ferrer 7-5 6-7(6) 7-6(3) 6-4 in four hours and two minutes to advance to the next round.

0827 KONTA THANKS FAMILY FOR GETTING HER THROUGH HARD TIMES

"When the organisation decided to stop funding me wasn't in my benefit. It actually was very difficult. Everybody needs help. This is not a cheap sport," Johanna Konta said after her emphatic win over Caroline Wozniacki.

"Whether you find that help through a Federation or through a private sponsor or through a family, no one gets there without any help. I don't believe tough love is necessarily the answer. I think it also depends on the player.

"My family, my support system, also my coaches at the time did a tremendous job in pulling together around me and making sure that our focus remained on the work and not on external situations which were mainly out of our control."

0810 DJOKOVIC-SLAYER ISTOMIN MAKES BUSTA HIS LATEST VICTIM

Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin, who knocked out defending champion and world number two Novak Djokovic in the previous round, continues his dream run as he beat Spanish 30th seed Pablo Carreno Busta 6-4 4-6 6-4 4-6 6-2 in three hours and 27 minutes.

0714 WOZNIACKI HAS NOTHING BUT PRAISE FOR KONTA

"You know, I think it's never positive when you lose in a slam. But, yeah, she played well. I think if she keeps playing like this, then she has good chances against Serena (Williams)," Caroline Wozniacki said after her loss to Johanna Konta.

"Obviously Serena is a champion, has won so many grand slams. She's been in tough positions. But I think Johanna is playing on a very high level right now."

0653 SERENA REMEMBERS FOND MEMORIES OF RIVALRY WITH SISTER VENUS

"I remember the draw came out, and I had to play her in the second round. I remember, I think, we had a tough first set, and then she really went through in the second," Serena Williams said after her win over Nicole Gibbs.

"It was a great time. We really had so much fun playing. It was -- it's really exciting, looking back, and looking at those moments. You don't really get those moments back, but you can remember them so well. It's so fun."

0625 LUCIC-BARONI ON DIFFICULTIES OF THE CHALLENGERS CIRCUIT

"You don't get new balls all the time. I think in third set only, you get new balls. You don't have ball boys, ball girls. You don't have umpires," Mirjana Lucic-Baroni said after her win over Maria Sakkari.

"It's difficult. Things are not as easy or as smooth as they are here, as well organised. You play for $55 a match, so it's difficult. There is a lot of things that could improve. I mean, prize money, obviously, the most. Yeah, there is a lot of little challenges like that."

0609 KONTA THRASHES WOZNIACKI

Ninth seed Johanna Konta wastes no time in beating former world number one Caroline Wozniacki 6-3 6-1 in 75 minutes to progress to the fourth round, where she will face Russian 30th seed Ekaterina Makarova.

ORDER OF PLAY (prefix denotes seeding)

ROD LAVER ARENA

22-Daria Gavrilova (Australia) v 12-Timea Bacsinszky (Switzerland)

15-Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria) v 18-Richard Gasquet (France)

MARGARET COURT ARENA

5-Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) v Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) (Compiled by Greg Stutchbury and Shravanth Vijayakumar; Editing by Peter Rutherford/Sudipto Ganguly)