Tennis fans can look forward to a high-quality quarter-final match at the 2016 Australian Open as Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova will be meeting for the 21st time in Melbourne on Tuesday.
The sport’s two biggest players both punched their quarterfinal ticket on Sunday as Maria Sharapova beat Belinda Bencic in a tight two-set encounter while Serena Williams had no problems sweeping past Russia’s
Margarita Gasparyan.
In Hisense Arena, Agniezska Radwanska escaped an early exit from the tournament, trailing Anna-Lena Friedsam 2-5 in the third set when the German was suddenly hit by severe cramps, preventing her from finishing the match in proper fashion.