That's how it goes pretty much every slam^

Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska said she felt like her "heart was going to jump out of her body" after she knocked out Victoria Azarenka to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals.

 

Yastremska, 23, won 7-6 (8-6) 6-4 against two-time champion Azarenka to move past the last 16 at a Grand Slam event for the first time.

 

But she will not face an all-Ukrainian quarter-final after Elina Svitolina retired injured against Linda Noskova.

 

Svitolina stopped due to a back issue.

 

The Wimbledon semi-finalist had to quit when she trailed 3-0 to the Czech teenager, who also advanced into her first Grand Slam quarter-final.

Second seed Carlos Alcaraz said he played "almost perfectly" in his fourth-round win over Serb Miomir Kecmanovic at the Australian Open.

 

The two-time Grand Slam champion won 6-4 6-4 6-0 to reach the quarter-finals for the first time at Melbourne Park.

 

"I'm feeling better and better every day," said Alcaraz, 20, who will play sixth seed Alexander Zverev next.

 

Elsewhere, Daniil Medvedev defeated Portugal's Nuno Borges and Pole Hubert Hurkacz beat wildcard Arthur Cazaux.

 

Germany's Zverev advanced with a five-set victory against British number one Cameron Norrie.

The all-British pairing of Heather Watson and Joe Salisbury moved into the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles at the Australian Open.

 

It ensures there will be at least one Briton in the semi-finals as Watson and Salisbury face Britain's Neal Skupski and American Desirae Krawczyk next.

 

Elsewhere on Monday, Skupski went out of the men's doubles in the third round, as did Lloyd Glasspool.

 

Jamie Murray and Russia's Yana Sizikova lost in round two of the mixed doubles.

 

They were beaten 6-3 6-4 by the sixth-seeded pairing of Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and American Nathaniel Lammons.

 

Watson and Salisbury, in the mixed doubles as alternates, gained a 6-3 6-2 win over eighth seeds Ellen Perez of Australia and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands.

 

In the men's doubles, Skupski and Mexican partner Santiago Gonzalez, the fifth seeds, lost 3-6 7-6 (7-1) 6-4 in the third round to Uruguay's Ariel Behar and Adam Pavlasek of the Czech Republic.

 

Glasspool and Rojer were the 11th seeds but fell to a 3-6 6-4 7-6 (10-3) loss to Monaco's Hugo Nys and Poland's Jan Zielinski.

Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka set up a tantalising Australian Open semi-final against American teenager Coco Gauff after overpowering Barbora Krejcikova in a straight-set victory.

 

Sabalenka's 6-2 6-3 win confirmed a repeat of September's thrilling US Open final, in which Gauff came back from a set down to win a first major title.

 

Gauff, 19, scraped past Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk in three sets in Melbourne.

 

The American made 51 unforced errors but won 7-6 (8-6) 6-7 (4-7) 6-2.

Rublev is a serious glass ceiling-style choker isn't he, TEN quarter finals in slams now and yet he's lost them all. And I thought Pegula's record was bad!

how painful it was to see Alcaraz yesterday :/ not sure if it was nerves but he played dreadful

 

semis will be interesting, on one hand, Sinner-Djokovic, hope Sinner can beat him although he doesn't seem to be physically 100%... on the other hand, always nice to see Medvedev-Zverev as they kinda hate each other's guts

wow Sinner destroyed Djokovic yay! we love to see it!

First time in 10 years there'll be a new name on the trophy, didn't watch the game but the scoreline suggests it was a very comprehensive and thoroughly deserved victory for Sinner.

Always nice to get some new faces (so to say) at the pointy end of the tournament.

Zverev loses another major Grand Slam match from being two sets up, oh what a shame :D

 

Will be supporting Medvedev in the final, but wouldn't be mad with Sinner winning either. Ending Djokovic's AO streak without even having to face a break point sounds like he was really impressive!

Zverev has a mental block against Med it seems, highlighted in the Break Point Netflix series.

Well that final was quite the ride. Med looking imperious then letting Sinner get back in the game. As soon as Sinner won the third set there was only ever gonna be one winner. Still, unbelievable effort from Med breaking 2 records: one for most sets ever played at a grand slam and the other for most minutes on court at a grand slam (over 24 hours!) Unfortunately he also now has the "dishonour" of becoming the first player in grand slam history to lose 2 finals after being 2 sets up. And 4 losses in finals from 5 appearances is becoming very Murray-like.

 

It will interesting now to see if Sinner & Alcaraz becoming the dominant duo. It would be pretty funny if so as it would mean we'd skip the entire 1990s born generation and move straight from the 80s players dominating into a post-millennial rivalry.

Kinda felt sorry for Medvedev, he played so so so much better at the start but then he was not there 100% physically and specially in the 5th he had no chance

ATP Ranking Movements:

 

7. Holger Rune (Denmark)

8. Hubert Hurkacz (Poland)

9. Taylor Fritz (USA)

10. Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece)

11. Alex de Minaur (Australia)

12. Casper Ruud (Norway)

14. Frances Tiafoe (USA)

15 Tommy Paul (USA)

17. Adrian Mannarino (France)

18. Karen Khachanov

19. Cameron Norrie (Great Britain)

20. Nicolas Jarry (Chile)

WTA Ranking Movements:

 

3. Coco Gauff (USA)

4. Jessica Pegula (USA)

5. Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan)

7. Qinwen Zheng (China)

8. Marketa Vondrouova (Czech Republic)

9. Maria Sakkari (Greece)

10. Karolina Muchova (Czech Republic)

12. Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)

13. Beatriz Haddad-Maia (Brazil)

14. Daria Kasatkina

15. Liudmila Samsonova

16. Veronika Kudermetova

17. Madison Keys (USA)

19. Elina Svitolina (Ukraine)

20. Caroline Garcia (France)

Tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert have "turned their backs on women" by opposing plans to stage women's events in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's ambassador to the United States has claimed.

 

Last week, the pair wrote an opinion piece outlining their opposition to hosting the WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia.

 

The WTA is considering moving the season-ending tournament to Riyadh.

The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) is to appeal against the decision that Briton Tara Moore was not to blame for a positive doping test.

 

Moore, 31, was ranked as Britain's leading women's doubles player when she was provisionally banned in May 2022, but always maintained her innocence.

 

She tested positive for nandrolone and boldenone while competing in Bogota, Colombia the previous month.

Andy Murray suffered a first-round exit at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier, but Katie Boulter won to reach the Linz Open second round.

 

Murray was beaten 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 by France's Benoit Paire.

 

The 36-year-old, who was also beaten in the first round at the Australian Open, has now won only one of his last eight matches.

 

British number one Boulter cruised past Italian sixth seed Jasmine Paolini in straight sets in Austria.

@1752416171511476557