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Australian Open 2017: Johanna Konta, Heather Watson and Kyle Edmund win

Johanna Konta, Heather Watson and Kyle Edmund all won to make it five British players in the second round of the Australian Open in Melbourne.

After Andy Murray and Dan Evans won on Monday, British women's number one Konta beat Kirsten Flipkens 7-5 6-2.

Edmund played superbly to see off Colombia's Santiago Giraldo 6-2 7-5 6-3 and Watson overcame Australia's Sam Stosur 6-3 3-6 6-0.

Naomi Broady will seek to make it six when she faces Daria Gavrilova later.

Konta shows her credentials

Last year Konta became the first British woman to reach an Australian Open semi-final since Sue Barker in 1977, and the first to reach the last four at any Grand Slam since Jo Durie at the 1983 US Open.