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Victoria Azarenka, Serena Williams among winners at Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Jan. 19 () -- No. 1-ranked Victoria Azarenka needed three sets but Serena Williams advanced in two Saturday in the third round of the Australian Open.Azarenka got by Jamie Hampton 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in a match that took more than 2 hours. Hampton had 41 winners but also 47 unforced errors, which accounted for nearly half of the 100 points Azarenka won in the match.Azarenka cashed in seven of her eight break-point opportunities and won more than half (49-of-96) of the points off Hampton's serve.Williams, the No. 3 seed, beat Ayumi Morita 6-1, 6-3 in 66 minutes. Williams won the last five games of the first set and the last six of the match. Morita had a break of serve -- the first suffered by Williams in the tournament -- and led 3-0 in the second set but Williams was too strong.Williams won 63 percent of the points overall and nearly 70 percent on serve. During the match she uncorked a serve of 128.7 mph -- the fifth fastest in women's tennis history.Unseeded Elena Vesnina ousted 16th-seeded Roberta Vinci 4-6, 7-6 (7-4),[url=http://www.christianelouboutinoutlet.com]Christian Louboutin Discount[/url], 6-4 in more than 2 1/2 hours. Each player had four breaks and Vesnina won only one more point (103-102) overall, but a pair of breaks in the third set allowed her to advance to a fourth-round match versus Azarenka.Williams will next play 14th-seeded Maria Kirilenko, who defeated No. 20 Yanina Wickmayer 7-6 (7-4), 6-3.No 10-seeded Caroline Wozniacki had just five winners, dropped serve five times and won just more than half the points on serve but still beat Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 6-3. Wozniacki had seven breaks and won two-thirds of the points receiving serve. Tsurenko hurt her own cause with 48 unforced errors -- matching the number of points she won.Unseeded Svetlana Kuznetsova earned a fourth-round match versus Wozniacki with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 decision over Carla Suarez Navarro.The other fourth-round pairing in this half of the draw has 29th-seeded Sloane Stephens taking on unseeded Bojana Jovanovski. Stephens, yet to drop a set in the tournament, beat Laura Robson 7-5, 6-3 and Jovanovski topped Kimiko Date-Krumm 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) Saturday.