Former champion Azarenka reaches quarter-finals

Published 01/25/2016, 1:47 AM EST

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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Twice champion Victoria Azarenka reached her fifth Australian Open quarter-final on Monday with a 6-2 6-4 win over unseeded Czech Barbora Strycova.

The former world number one has been in irresistible form at Melbourne Park, winning her four matches without dropping a set, and had too many weapons for Strycova, who scrapped hard but was edged in the baseline battles.

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Azarenka captured the decisive break in the seventh game of the final set and saved two break points at 4-3 before closing out the match in one hour and 26 minutes.

Azarenka’s bid for a third Melbourne Park title continues against German seventh seed Angelique Kerber.

(By Ian Ransom, Editing by Peter Rutherford)

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