Sean Randall makes his picks for the last two men’s quarterfinal matches.

Roger Federer needed just under two hours to sink the hopes of locals for their man Lleyton Hewitt to pull the upset.

I wasn’t sure when to make a mid-tournament assessment.

Sean Randall recaps Saturday play at the Australian Open and looks ahead to Sunday.

Sean Randall gives his third round take on the Australian Open.

This question slowly crept into my head as I was watching Roger Federer attempt everything in his power to keep himself from missing against a free-swinging Igor Andreev.

“Now it’s everyone scare,” said Davydenko in sending out his English-challenged, cryptic warning to Oz opponents. “That’s what’s is start to talking about me and favorites and everything. But it’s interesting feeling. Now I feel like I can beat everyone. That’s was these guys now, you know, something feel different. Before no because I know I can win, but mostly I losing against these guys. But now I can beat everyone. It’s good feeling.”

Since their first and only slam final to date, Federer reached the final at the next four slams.

The 2010 men’s Australian Open draw has been released.

“The first set was 6-0, everybody saw it,” the 28-year-old Davydenko said. “But if you saw the match, it was not so easy. I tried every point but Nadal had very good concentration and played very well every point. I really had the chance to win some games, but I played a little bit slowly, he played much faster…[In the end] I think he lost a little bit of concentration and lost the match. For me it was a really good fight today.” Nadal remains without a title since May 2009 at Rome.