READ MORE:<\/strong> Stosur's teary farewell to professional tennis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Coach's sneaky ploy caught on camera\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n "I wasn't making many returns at the start; I missed a few smashes and easy volleys, so I was probably making his life a bit tough out there," he said.<\/p>\n "I decided to start hitting a few in and help him out a bit, and Kubes did the rest."<\/p>\n Wally Masur asked who the team's leader was – the response from Hijikata?<\/p>\n "Probably just as clueless as one another."<\/p>\n To illustrate that point, Kubler was asked his thoughts on their next opponents – the team of Bosnia's Tomislav Brkic and Ecuador's Gonzalo Escobar.<\/p>\n "We didn't even know who were we playing," he said as the crowd laughed.<\/p>\n "You know what they say, one match at a time right? We were so focused on this one, we didn't see the next one. I don't know too much but hopefully we can bring the energy, you guys can bring the energy, and we can have another match like this."<\/p>\n Watch the Australian Open live and free on the Nine Network: Channel 9, 9Gem and<\/strong><\/em> 9NOW<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n A win in the round of 16 could potentially see the Aussies face the number one seeded team of Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski, who saw off the Tsitsipas brothers in a third set super-tiebreak in the second round earlier on day six.<\/p>\n \ufeffFor a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n