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Nadal toughs one out to reach quarterfinals

MELBOURNE, Australia — Rafael Nadal took almost four hours but advanced to his 10th Australian Open quarterfinal on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3 win over Diego Schwartzman. Nadal will next play sixth-seeded Marin Cilic, who collected his 100th Grand Slam match win with a 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-6 (0), 7-6 (3) victory over No. 10 Pablo Carreno Busta.

Kyle Edmund reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinal by defeating Andreas Seppi 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-2, 6-3. Seppi, 33, has now played 52 majors without reaching the quarterfinals — he has lost in the fourth round five times. Grigor Dimitrov beat Nick Kyrgios 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (4).

Madison Keys advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-2 win over eighth-seeded Caroline Garcia. Angelique Kerber extended her winning streak to 13 matches with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory over Hsieh Su-wei. Tomas Berdych also advanced. Elise Mertens beat Petra Martic 7-6 (5), 7-5, and Elina Svitolina defeated Denisa Allertova 6-3, 6-0.

Skiing: In Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Lara Gut won the final World Cup super-G before the Olympics, signaling a return to form after knee surgery last season. ... In Kitzbuehel, Austria, Henrik Kristoffersen won a men's World Cup slalom, ending Marcel Hirscher's five-race winning streak.

Soccer: Mallory Pugh scored a pair of second-half goals, and the U.S. women's national team opened the year with a 5-1 victory over Denmark in San Diego. Alex Morgan, Julie Ertz and Crystal Dunn also scored for the top-ranked United States. Denmark went up 1-0 in the 14th minute off Nadia Nadim's header.

Obituary: Jim Johannson, the general manager of the U.S. Olympic men's hockey team, died in his sleep Sunday, just a couple of weeks before the start of the Pyeongchang Olympic Games in South Korea. He was 53.

— Wire reports