Djokovic and Wawrinka win in Australia

Top seed Novak Djokovic overcame a nervous start and feisty Fernando Verdasco to safely negotiate his way into the fourth round of the Australian Open on Saturday.

With the surprise loss of Roger Federer still hanging over the men's draw, Djokovic was well aware the danger the 31-year-old Verdasco, a former top-10 player posed.

The Spaniard had taken Rafa Nadal deep into the night in a five-hour, five set marathon during the 2009 semi-finals in Melbourne and only trailed the Serb 6-4 in their career head-to-head record.

Verdasco harassed Djokovic at the start but once the world number one sealed the first set tiebreak after an hour of the tense baseline battle he ran away with the match in the next two to win 7-6(8) 6-3 6-4 and set up a fourth round clash with Luxembourg's Gilles Muller.

Stan Wawrinka

Defending champion Stan Wawrinka continued his unobtrusive progress to also book his place in the last 16.

Wawrinka has yet to drop a set in Melbourne and enjoyed another straightforward victory in the third round, beating Finland's Jarkko Nieminen 6-4 6-2 6-4 on Rod Laver Arena.

The fourth seed sent down nine aces and won 90 per cent of points behind his first serve to set up a clash with Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the fourth round.

Garcia-Lopez was a similarly comfortable winner over Canada's Vasek Pospisil, beating the world number 60 6-2 6-4 6-4 to reach the last 16 and equal his best performance in a grand slam.

Fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez continued his charmed progress through the draw with victory over Poland's Jerzy Janowicz, the 12th seed winning 7-6 (8/6) 6-4 7-6 (7/3) to set up a last-16 contest with eighth seed Milos Raonic.

Lopez saved three match points in his first-round match with wild card Denis Kudla, eventually winning the fifth set 10-8, and saved another in the second round against Adrian Mannarino. Lopez was trailing 4-6 4-6 0-4 when Mannarino fell ill but won the third-set tie-break and was leading 4-0 in the fourth set when his unfortunate opponent retired.

Milos Raonic continued the theme of one-sided matches by beating Germany's Benjamin Becker - who knocked out home favourite Lleyton Hewitt in the previous round - 6-4 6-3 6-3.

The fourth round line-up was eventually completed when Spain's David Ferrer defeated France's Gilles Simon in four sets after threatening to squander a commanding position.

Ferrer failed to serve out the match at 5-4 in the third set and twice more in the fourth set from 5-2 up as Simon staged a remarkable fightback on Margaret Court Arena.

Ninth seed Ferrer stopped the rot and forced a tie-break in which he let two match points slip before finally completing a 6-2 7-5 5-7 7-6 (7/4) victory in three hours and 37 minutes.

Ferrer will face fifth seed Kei Nishikori in the last 16 after the US Open finalist recovered from losing the first set to beat American Steve Johnson 6-7 (7/9) 6-1 6-2 6-3.

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