Simona Halep cruises to Australian Open quarter-finals
Melbourne, Jan 22 (IBNS): Top seed Simona Halep reached the Australian Open quarter-finals by beating Naomi Osaka in the third-round clash here on Monday.
Halep defeated her opponent in a clash that lasted for four hours.
Halep defeated Osaka by 6-3 6-2.
Despite ankle injury in the first round, Halep continued her dominance in the match.
After the match, she called the clash as 'great'.
"Maybe I get used to the pain and I'm not thinking that much that something can happen. Just taking every point. I'm trying to play 100 per cent, which I was close (to) today, to run normal and to run a lot," Halep was quoted as saying by the tournament website.
"But I still feel it. It's there, but I can handle it," she said.
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