Updates from the evening session at Melbourne Park
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Jovic, seeded 29, will face the unseeded Yulia Putintseva in the last 16, so she’ll go into her first fourth-round match at a slam in the strange position of being the favourite. Not that I think that’ll faze her.
“It feels amazing,” Jovic says. “I’ve been wanting this one for a while now. I just tried to focus [in the tie-break]on what I was doing earlier in the match, when I served for the match I was a bit passive, so I told myself to go out swinging in the tie-break.” She then thanks her family who’ve flown in from LA. She reminds me of how her fellow American Coco Gauff was when she broke through on tour, in how she speaks with a maturity beyond her years. She looks like the real deal.
