Novak Djokovic of Serbia rests on the court throughout his 3rd round match versus Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria at the Australian Open tennis champion in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) Dita Alangkara AP MELBOURNE, Australia LOOKAHEAD TO MONDAY Novak Djokovic deals with another test of his physical fitness as he plays Alex de Minaur for a location in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. Djokovic has actually been handling an aching left hamstring throughout the competition and will attempt to ward off De Minaur, the Australian who is maybe the fastest gamer on the males’s trip. Djokovic is attempting to win the Australian Open for a record-extending 10th time. He is likewise the only guy left in the bracket who has actually won a Grand Slam title– and another would pull him even with Rafael Nadal at 22, the most for a male. In other guys’s fourth-round matches, No. 5 Andrey Rublev plays No. 10 Holger Rune, No. 24 Roberto Bautista Agut deals with Tommy Paul, and Ben Shelton handles J.J. Wolf in an all-American contest. In females’s action, No. 4 seed Caroline Garcia attempts to take an action more detailed to her very first Grand Slam title when she plays Magda Linette, No. 5 Aryna Sabalenka plays Belinda Bencic, Donna Vekic deals with 17-year-old Linda Fruhvirtova and No. 30 Karolina Pliskova plays No. 23 Zhang Shuai. SUNDAY’S KEY RESULTS Women’s Fourth Round: No. 22 Elena Rybakina beat No. 1 Iga Swiatek 6-4, 6-4; No. 5 Jessica Pegula beat No. 20 Barbora Krejcikova 7-5, 6-2; No. 17 Jelena Ostapenko beat No. 7 Coco Gauff 7-5, 6-3; No. 24 Victoria Azarenka beat Zhu Lin 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Male’s Fourth Round: No. 3 Stefanos Tsitsipas beat No. 15 Jannik Sinner 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3; Jiri Leheckva beat No. 6 Felix Auger-Aliassime 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (2 ), 7-6 (3 ); No. 29 Sebastian Korda beat No. 10 Hubert Hurkacz 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7); No. 18 Karen Khachanov beat No. 31 Yoshihito Nishioka 6-0, 6-0, 7-6 (4 ). MONDAY’S FORECAST Partly cloudy. High of 79 degrees Fahrenheit (26 degrees Celsius). STAT OF THE DAY Zero– Number of times in the Open age prior to the 2023 Australian Open that the leading 2 females’s seeds and leading 2 guys’s seeds were all preceded the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam competition. PRICE ESTIMATE OF THE DAY “I usually can problem-solve, however today I seem like I didn’t have much responses to what she was doing.”– Coco Gauff, on her loss to Jelena Ostapenko. ___ AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports This story was initially released January 22, 2023 3:31 AM.
Australian Open lookahead: Djokovic vs. Australian de Minaur – Lexington Herald Leader
