World number one Gustavo Kuerten became tennis’s great escapologist early this morning to scrape through an extraordinary US Open third round match with Max Mirnyi.

Wimbledon top-seed Martina Hingis, the Swiss Miss who has not won a Grand Slam title for more than two years, will meet Virginia Ruano-Pascual of Spain, in the opening round.

Australian Open results

This is the schedule of play on the show courts for the third day of the Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia (prefix number denotes seeding):