Hm, that's going to be an interesting one. Glatch recently beat Oudin, but not much else recently. Hopefully with added confidence it's winnable.

Tough draw, though I expect Caroline will be upset by Morita. One match at a time of course, Glatch will be quite the test.

I totally forgot Katie was playing on live score today!

She won though 6-3 6-4. Awesome!

That's a really good win,.

And assuming that's 30 points, Katie will now be GB no 2 come next Monday.

Any news on Pushniacki ?   Anyway, what's she done lately ?  

Playing well and slowly finding her way at a higher level. Just got to maintain her belief and I see her maintaining her top 100 status next year.

Nice work Katie OB.

Good solid looking win against a trickey opponent.

A good win against an opponent at a similar level - the serving stats being un-Katie like (5 Aces, 1 double and 71% of points won on second serve). With nothing to defend before the Australian Open now is the time to try to push on before the pressure of point defences needing to be made.

From the LTA:

"It's a really satisfying win, particularly because I lost to her last time. It also makes up for some of the disappointment of losing such a close match last week in Tokyo as well. My opponent was tough to play against because she can be very flashy and didn't give me much rhythm. I stayed tough throughout the match, though, and served well which kept a lot of the pressure on her, said OBrien.

OBriens reward for progressing to the next round could potentially see a tie against tournament No.1 seed Caroline Wozniacki, a meeting that she would relish.

I play the winner of Caroline Wozniacki and Ayumi Morita next. I'm really looking forward to it, especially if I play Wozniacki because she'll be the highest ranked player I'll have played against and I'll have absolutely nothing to lose."