Alcaraz will face Zverev in the quarterfinals of Australian Open

Second seed Carlos Alcaraz won in straight sets to reach the men’s singles quarterfinals of the Australian Open tennis tournament here on Monday where he will face Olympic champion Alexander Zverev. Twenty-year-old Wimbledon champion Alcaraz could not play in the first Grand Slam tournament of the season in 2023 due to injury.

Second seed Alcaraz defeated Miomir Kesmanovic 6-4, 6-4, 6-0 in less than two hours in the pre-quarterfinals. In another pre-quarterfinal, Zverev defeated number 19 player Cameron Nouri 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 in a tough match that lasted for four hours. Daniil Medvedev also managed to reach the quarterfinals while Medvedev entered the quarterfinals on Monday by defeating Nuno Borges 6-3 7-6 5-7 6-1. In the last eight match, he will face ninth seed Hubert Hurkacz, who defeated wild card holder Arthur Kezo of France 7-6, 7-6, 6-4.

While the top-seeded players in the men’s singles remain in contention, 12th-ranked Zheng Qianwen is the top-ranked player in the women’s singles. Zheng defeated 95th ranked Ocean Dodin 6-0, 6-3. She will face 75th ranked Anna Kalinskaya in the next round. Apart from Zheng and Kalinskaya, Diana Yastremska and Linda Noskova made it to the last eight of women’s singles of this tournament for the first time. Kalinskaya defeated Jasmine Paolini, ranked 26th, 6-4,6-2. Yastremska defeated two-time champion Victoria Azarenka in straight sets 7-6 6-4 in women’s singles, while No. 18 Elina Svitolina withdrew from the match due to a back injury when she was trailing 0-3 to Noskova. decided to.

Azarenka got a chance to win the set on her serve twice in the first set and at the score of 6-5 she had two set points but she could not take advantage of it. Ukraine’s Yastremska then won the first set in 74 minutes. In the second set too, Azarenka of Belarus was leading 3-0 but Yastremska won six out of the next seven games to clinch the match. Azarenka and Yastremska did not shake hands, continuing a tradition between players from Ukraine and Russia and Belarus. The first game of the match between Noskova-Svitolina lasted 11 minutes. Noskova broke Svitolina’s serve and then saved her serve to make the score 2-0.

Svitolina took time out and got her back treated. When the match started, Ukraine’s Svitolina’s serve speed was very low and she was also having trouble in movement. Noskova took advantage of this and broke serve again and Svitolina decided to withdraw from the match.

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