Reigning
Wimbledon champ beat Yulia Putintseva 6-1 6-42nd seed Karolina Pliskova is the latest big name to fallSimona Halep is refusing to look ahead after charging into the second week of the
Australian Open as fellow top seeds tumbled out. The former finalist and reigning Wimbledon champion took just over an hour to down unseeded Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 6-1 6-4 in Saturday’s third-round encounter on Rod Laver Arena.
With world No 2 Karolina Pliskova falling to
Russian underdog Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Halep is the highest seed left on her side of the women’s draw.