A finalist will emerge from between Greek and Russian. Two of the other parts of the table of the first Grand Slam of the year remain to be known.
the greek Stefanos Tsitsipasfourth in the ATP world ranking, defeated the Czech this Tuesday morning Jiri Lehecka (71st) by 6-3, 7-6 (2) and 6-4and advanced to semifinals of the Australian Open, which takes place in Melbourne. Now the Greek will determine a finalist against the Russian Karen Khachanova (18th), which is today American Sebastian Korda lost (29th) by 7-6 (5), 6-3, 3-0 and abandonment.
chives, 24, outlasted Lehecka, 21, one of the surprises of the tournament as she has never advanced to a Grand Slam, in two hours and 17 minutes of play. The Greek tennis player was a finalist at Roland Garros in 2021, when he lost the final to Serbian Novak Djokovic. Now advanced to the semifinals of the Oceanic Open for the fourth timewhere he fell on previous occasions against Spaniard Rafael Nadal, and twice against Russian Daniil Medvedev.
Khachanovon its part, was able to classify according to second time in a row in a Grand Slam semifinal, after falling in the United States Open against Norwegian Casper Ruud. The Russian tennis player eliminated Petr Korda’s son, winner in Australia in 1998 against Chilean Marcelo Ríos, taking advantage of a right wrist injury that caused him to retire in the third set.
The other quarterfinals will be led by Novak Djokovic (5th) against Russian Andrei Rublev (6th); and the Americans Ben Shelton (89°) and tommy paul (35°). Both will play at dawn this Wednesday (Argentine time).
Source: Tycsports
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