Australian Open Day 7 picks, including Wawrinka vs. Robredo and Ferrer vs. Mayer

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The Grandstand’s Ricky Dimon and Steen Kirby of Tennis East Coast preview and pick the best men’s singles matchups on Day 7 of the Australian Open. This is the seventh of 13 installments of expert picks during the season’s first Grand Slam.

(8) Stanislas Wawrinka vs. (17) Tommy Robredo

Ricky: For a traditionally non-Top 10 player (although he has reached such a level at times), Robredo is one of the most consistent Grand Slam performers of all time. The 31-year-old went even further than his normal fourth-round finish at last year’s U.S. Open and he is one win away from reaching another quarterfinal at the Australian Open. Robredo is coming off an upset of Richard Gasquet, in which he did well to finish it off in a fourth-set tiebreaker and avoid an energy-sapping fifth. He is dominating the head-to-head series 6-1 over Wawrinka, whose easy path so far Down…

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