Melbourne: Former winner Stan Wawrinka maintained his dominance over Czech opponents with a straight sets win against Radek Stepanek to advance to the third round at the Australian Open yesterday.
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The Swiss fourth seed wore down the veteran Stepanek 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 in just over two hours on Hisense Arena and will face another Czech Lukas Rosol in the round of 32.
Wawrinka&rsquo;s win over the 37-year-old, who had to qualify for this year&rsquo;s main draw, stretched his winning streak over Czech players to 11 and he has the chance to make that 12 against Rosol on Saturday.
He has not lost to a Czech player since he was defeated by Tomas Berdych in the Davis Cup first round in 2013.

Former winner Stan Wawrinka maintained his dominance over Czech opponents with a straight sets win against Radek Stepanek to advance to the third round at the Australian Open yesterday

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