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Evening Standard
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Matt Majendie

Home favourite Ash Barty cruises into round three of the Australian Open

Ash Barty helped cement her status as favourite for the Australian Open with another dominant win in the second round in front of her home crowd on Wednesday.

There is enormous pressure and expectation on the 25-year-old to become the first home winner of the event since 1978 but the world No1 looked at ease from the outset against Lucia Bronzetti.

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