Switzerland's 12th seed Belinda Bencic on Saturday stormed into the women's singles fourth round at the Australian Open with a hard-fought 6-2 7-5 victory over Camila Giorgi of Italy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The two players have not met since 2019 but Bencic, the Tokyo Olympic Games gold medallist, enjoyed a 3-2 head-to-head advantage going into their sixth clash. She is also on an unbeaten run in January, having begun the 2023 season with a bang, defeating players like Garbine Muguruza, Caroline Garcia and Daria Kasatkina en route to the Adelaide International title.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But Giorgi has a reputation for slaying seeds and that set the scene for an intriguing clash in the Round of 32 at Melbourne Park on Saturday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
However, Bencic held the upper hand in the first set and broke Giorgi's serve in the third and seventh games to pocket the set 6-2. In the second set, the two players traded serve in the first two games before Bencic broke Giorgi's serve again in the third game. She survived a tough eighth game which went to advantage four times before Bencic held her serve to lead 5-3.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Giorgi broke Bencic's serve in the 10th game to make it 5-5 but the Swiss star broke right back in the 11th game and then held her serve to seal the set 6-4 and victory in one hour and 40 minutes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
This brings to an end to Giorgi's campaign in the Australian Open wherfe she was forced to deny allegations that she had used fake Covid-19 documents to participate in the 2022 event.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Giorgi, 31, fielded several questions about the allegations during a press conference following her victory over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first round of the Australian Open on Tuesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
This brings to an end to Giorgi's campaign in the Australian Open wherfe she was forced to deny allegations that she had used fake Covid-19 documents to participate in the 2022 event.<\/p>\r\n\r\n