Li Na survives Safarova test to advance

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Li Na saves match point before rallying past Lucie Safarova at Australian Open.

China's Li Na has survived a match point to fend off Czech Lucie Safarova 1-6 7-6(2) 6-3 on Hisense Arena to book a fourth round berth at Australian Open 2014.

Safarova caught Li off-guard by dominating the first set, 6-1, before the fourth seed recovered to win the second set in a tiebreaker.

The 2011 French Open champion and Safarova continued to punch and counter punch in an entertaining third set before Li broke in the eighth game and then held serve to set up a fourth round clash with Russia's Ekaterina Makarova.

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