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Sorry - this page has been removed. Serena Williams sets up Australian Open clash with Dominika Cibulkova
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This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. Serena Williams avenged last year’s French Open loss to Garbine Muguruza at the Australian Open, overhauling the hard-hitting Spaniard 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals.
The 24th seed Muguruza stunned Williams in the second round at Roland Garros and another upset looked on the cards as the rising 21-year-old tore through the first set with a barrage of winners from the baseline.
For further information, please contact: Top seed Williams woke up and her serve, so often her saviour, became almost impenetrable. After saving six break points in a marathon second game of the deciding set, Williams then broke Muguruza twice before sealing the match when her opponent blasted a forehand long.
Williams will play last year’s losing finalist Dominika Cibulkova for a place in the semi-finals after the feisty Slovakian scrapped like a streetfighter to grind down two-time champion Victoria Azarenka.
Cibulkova, beaten in last year’s final by Li Na, weathered the inevitable comeback by the Belarusian blaster and ran her ragged in a match of the highest quality to earn the 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 win.
The pint-sized 25-year-old blasted 44 winners and broke Azarenka twice in the deciding set, sealing it when her opponent netted after two hours and 10 minutes.
Madison Keys advanced to her first grand slam quarter-final and underlined her pure hitting potential with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over compatriot and namesake Madison Brengle.
Brengle had said before the match the pair had joked “there can be only one” Madison if they ever met each other, with the clash also the first time since 2002 that two American women not named Williams had met this deep in a grand slam.
The 19-year-old Keys, who destryed the hard-hitting two-times Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the third round on Saturday, was equally as destructive against her 24-year-old oponent, hammering 38 winners in the victory.
She will now meet either Venus Williams or sixth seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the last eight.