BSP-09 Britain’s Edmund beats Seppi to reach quarters

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Britain’s Edmund beats Seppi to reach quarters

MELBOURNE, Jan 21, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – British hope Kyle Edmund reached his
first Grand Slam quarter-final with a four-set win over Italy’s Andreas Seppi
at the Australian Open on Sunday.

The unseeded Edmund, ranked 49, lost the opening set, but finished
strongly to win 6-7 (4/7), 7-5, 6-2, 6-3 and will face Nick Kyrgios or Grigor
Dimitrov in the last eight.

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