Former finalist Marin Cilic, 33, ended fifth seed Andrey Rublev&rsquo;s Australian Open hopes with an upset four-set victory to reach the fourth round on Saturday.&nbsp;
The experienced Croatian, seeded 27, knocked out the Russian 7-5, 7-6 (7/3), 3-6, 6-3 in 2hr 36min on Margaret Court Arena to book a place in the Last-16.&nbsp;
It will be Cilic&rsquo;s eighth time in the fourth round at the Australian Open, where he was a beaten finalist to Roger Federer in 2018 after overcoming Rafael Nadal in the quarters.&nbsp;
Cilic will face Canada&rsquo;s ninth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime for a place in the quarter-finals. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had a good start to the season, played two weeks of tennis in Adelaide, and I&rsquo;ve had two good matches here before this one,&rdquo; Cilic said. &ldquo;The conditions in the evening were a bit cooler and allowed me to go more for my shots and I was really lining up a lot of them, especially the returns, it was really going well for me today.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m feeling really excited, I&rsquo;m playing amazing and just looking forward to the next match, which gets tougher and tougher with the opponents, but I will try to give it my best.&rdquo;&nbsp;
It was a superb clean-hitting performance from Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion, and he left Rublev shaking his&nbsp; head with some of his 55 winners.&nbsp;
It was Cilic&rsquo;s second win in six meetings with Rublev, who reached the quarter-finals of last year&rsquo;s Australian Open.&nbsp;
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Former finalist Cilic stuns fifth seed Rublev 7-5, 7-6 (7/3), 3-6, 6-3 to reach fourth round

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