It took only minutes for Kyrgios to ignite the terraces by breaking Broady in the opening game. He closed out the next game with an under-arm "tweener".
Novak Djokovic praised American Tim Smyczek's act of sportsmanship in his second round marathon against Rafa Nadal as "greater than sport itself" at the Australian Open on Thursday.
Images from the matches played on Day 10 at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday
IMAGES from Day 5 of the Australian Open in Melbourne, on Friday.
Lleyton Hewitt was ushered into retirement as Spain's David Ferrer ended the Australian former world number one's career with a 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 victory on an emotional night at Melbourne Park.
Images from Day 3 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Novak Djokovic will need to spend some time on the sidelines recovering from a muscle tear that hindered him in the later rounds of the Australian Open, the Serbian said as he celebrated his ninth Melbourne Park title on Monday.
Danielle Collins spoke of the challenges of plotting matches without a coach but will still head off with lessons learnt.
Brady saw four match points slip through her fingers as she served it out nervously but finally celebrated the win when Muchova fired a forehand long.
Ninth seed Auger-Aliassime, 21, was the dominant player in the first set and despite a wobble when serving at 6-5 he won a tiebreak courtesy of some Medvedev double-faults the Russian later blamed on the sweaty conditions.
Stefanos Tsitsipas credited his stellar comeback win against Rafa Nadal in Wednesday's Australian Open quarter-final to his peace of mind, saying he had attained a state of "nirvana" during the match despite falling back by two sets.
World No 1 Novak Djokovic won a record-extending 6th Australian Open title after defeating Briton Andy Murray in straight sets at Melbourne Park on Sunday.
Images from all the action on Day 9 at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke is weighing exercising his discretionary powers to revoke Djokovic's visa
Images from Monday's action at the Australian Open.
Victoria Azarenka rolled back the years at the Australian Open on Tuesday as the two-times champion crushed third seed Jessica Pegula to reach the semi-finals.
Former French Open champion Ana Ivanovic was shaken up when a spectator was injured falling down the stairs on Rod Laver Arena but recovered her composure to ease into the third round at the Australian Open on Thursday.
No wonder Caroline Wozniacki could not stop hugging the trophy she referred to affectionately as 'Daphne' on Saturday after outlasting Simona Halep to win the Australian Open title.
Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei has enjoyed double good fortune at Melbourne Park this week.
Zverev has not lost to Wawrinka in two previous meetings but is not taking the 2014 Melbourne Park champion lightly.
'I have been serving well, starting to create damage with the forehand. Hitting serve on one shot, I think'
Federer's kids give dad competition with the attention
After Sunday's thrashing Medvedev was left wondering if his best would have made any difference.
Roger Federer overcame some feisty resistance from Alexandr Dolgopolov to safely advance to the third round of the Australian Open with a 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 victory.
Bernard Tomic bowed out of the Australian Open on Sunday with a stinging rebuke of the scheduling.
Novak Djokovic won a record-extending 10th Australian Open crown, beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in a generational clash in the men's singles final, at Melbourne Park, on Sunday.
Nadal said his back was still bothering him against world number 56 Djere
Images from the action on Day 2 at the Australian Open.
The 34-year-old practised for an hour on Thursday evening at the Rod Laver Arena and his fitness was improving "little by little, step by step", sources close to Nadal told Reuters.
Images from Day 4 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.
Photos from matches played Day 7 of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Sunday
Images from all the action on Day 4 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday
Nadal said he did not expect to go all the way at Melbourne Park
Barty is primed to become the first local since Chris O'Neil in 1978 to win the Australian Open.
A ruthless Petra Kvitova trampled on the hopes of the host nation with an emphatic 6-1, 6-4 defeat of Ashleigh Barty to reach her second Australian Open semi-final.
Frances Tiafoe is hopeful to build on his own stature in the game as he prepares for an Australian Open quarter-final clash with Rafael Nadal on Tuesday.
Simona Halep begins her Australian Open campaign against Kaia Kanepi on Tuesday in a rematch of their U.S. Open meeting which the world number one lost in straights sets.
A win for Djokovic would move him past Pete Sampras (14) to outright third on the list of Grand Slam title winners.
'It wasn't really a nice time to be dealing with everything'
Defending champion Novak Djokovic was knocked out of the Australian Open quarter-finals by Stanislas Wawrinka 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 9-7 on Tuesday.
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