Djokovic and Fritz Set for Quarterfinal Clash; Sinner and Rublev Advance in Melbourne

The quarter-final lineup for the highest half of the draw is about and can see Novak Djokovic face off towards Taylor Fritz, whereas Jannik Sinner will tackle X after the quartet progressed from Sunday’s 4th spherical matches in Melbourne.

First to cement his spot was Novak Djokovic, who was enjoying within the noon Melbourne solar for the primary time this match, having occupied the night time session in his three earlier rounds.

Nonetheless, sunshine proved to be the most effective disinfectant, and he cleaned up towards Mannarino with a 6-0 6-0 6-3 win.

Taylor Fritz was subsequent to hitch him, pulling off his greatest win at a Grand Slam when it comes to opposition rating with a 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 over final 12 months’s finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Jannik Sinner then continued his march towards the latter levels with a tricky however in the end comfy 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Karen Khachanov.

Within the remaining match of the day, Andrey Rublev recovered from 2 units to 1 right down to see off Alex de Minaur 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-0 to keep up his 100% report in 2024.

Day Eight 2024 Australian Open Spherical of 16 Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Novak Djokovic (1)
Adrian Mannarino (20)
6-0 6-0 6-3

Jannik Sinner (4)
Karen Khachanov (15)
6-4 7-5 6-3

Andrey Rublev (5)
Alex de Minaur (10)
6-4 5-7 4-6 6-3 6-0

Taylor Fritz (12)
Stefanos Tsitsipas (7)
7-6(3) 5-7 6-3 6-3

Djokovic Destroys Mannarino

Novak Djokovic made mild work of marathon man Adrian Mannarino 6-0, 6-0, 6-3 on Sunday en path to his thirty second straight victory in Australia as he moved into the quarter-finals.

If each gamers had been on an equal footing heading into the match, I’d have given Mannarino between 12 and 14 video games, perhaps a tie-break set and even pinching one set, as he has a well-rounded talent set.

Nonetheless, on condition that he’d spent 15 hours on courtroom in three rounds, the match was destined to be an entire carve-up. There isn’t a man on the planet who can play three five-setters in a row and beat Djokovic at his greatest match.

So, primarily based on that, I’m unsure the place some tennis speaking heads bought the concept Mannarino could be an enormous menace, much more so given their H2H, which is now 5-0 Djokovic.

The Serb dominated, profitable the primary 13 video games of the match to supply an unassailable lead. It was an all-business-like efficiency, and there’s not a lot Mannarino might have achieved.

Regardless that the rating seems dreadful, the opening set had loads of prolonged baseline exchanges, and Mannarino performed solidly sufficient.

Nonetheless, he doesn’t have a recreation the place he can go nuclear and finish the purpose in 1 shot. As an alternative, he has to absorb the tempo and transfer the ball across the courtroom, nevertheless it’s an uphill activity whenever you’re enjoying the most effective lateral mover of all time who can play like that with out lacking seemingly eternally, particularly whenever you’re not operating on a full tank of gasoline having performed these five-setters.

Djokovic, then again, is recharging because the match goes on as he continues to shake off a virus that hampered him considerably within the earlier rounds. Subsequent for him is Fritz, who, regardless of having a lopsided H2H, can do some injury from the baseline and can supply extra of a problem.

Clearly by no means straightforward to play Adrian, who’s a really unorthodox participant, makes use of the angles very well and has bought one of many flattest and most constant backhands within the recreation. It’s sort of a cat-and-mouse tennis match towards him. So I needed to, in a approach, bodily endure the lengthy rallies and attempt to run him across the courtroom, which I did, and I feel I served very properly. Within the moments after I wanted to provide you with the primary serve, I did, so all in all, an ideal efficiency. Djokovic on his win over Mannarino.

Match Stats

 
Novak Djokovic
Adrian Mannarino

Aces
17
1

Double Faults
5
0

1st Serve Proportion
70%
0.59

1st Serve Factors Received
81% (39/48)
50% (17/34)

2nd Serve Factors Received
62% (13/21)
33% (8/24)

Break Factors Saved
100% (3/3)
36% (4/11)

1st Return Factors Received
50% (17/34)
19% (9/48)

2nd Return Factors Received
67% (16/24)
38% (8/21)

Break Factors Transformed
64% (7/11)
0% (0/3)

Winners
31
12

Unforced Errors
15
31

Internet Factors Received
76% (13/17)
43% (6/14)

Max Factors In Row
6
4

Service Factors Received
75% (52/69)
43% (25/58)

Return Factors Received
57% (33/58)
25% (17/69)

Complete Factors Received
67% (85/127)
33% (42/127)

Max Video games In Row
13
1

Service Video games Received
100% (11/11)
30% (3/10)

Return Video games Received
70% (7/10)
0% (0/11)

Complete Video games Received
86% (18/21)
14% (3/21)

Highlights

Fritz Fires Previous Tsitsipas

Taylor Fritz is into the Australian Open quarter-finals for the primary time in his profession, firing himself previous Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.

Maybe much more surprisingly, that is Fritz’s first top-10 win at a Grand Slam. Though, given Tsitsipas’s rating is on the slide, he received’t be there for for much longer.

In Sunday’s encounter, the American was the higher participant, highlighting lots of the Greek’s latest shortcomings on the return and his backhand wing.

If the Greek can get his forehand into the rally, he’s very exhausting to cease, however when you get him defending, particularly on the backhand, you’ll get a brief ball to take management of the purpose, and Fritz did that properly.

Though he can look a bit ungainly in his motion, the American defended properly and deserved the win with the extra strong play, and he completed with 50 winners to only 19 unforced errors.

Test the highlights under, and also you’ll see Tsitsipas channelling in his interior Swiatek as he tried the leaping jack hindrance on the match level. Lame.

I trusted my photographs rather a lot. I served properly the entire match. It stored me in it as there have been some video games he was in that I might get out of with my serve. On the finish, after I actually wanted it, I turned it up a stage and performed a few of my greatest tennis to complete it. Fritz on his win over Tsitsipas.

Match Stats

 
Taylor Fritz
Stefanos Tsitsipas

Aces
13
12

Double Faults
2
7

1st Serve Proportion
70%
63%

1st Serve Factors Received
86% (68/79)
76% (65/86)

2nd Serve Factors Received
53% (18/34)
44% (22/50)

Break Factors Saved
50% (2/4)
64% (7/11)

1st Return Factors Received
24% (21/86)
14% (11/79)

2nd Return Factors Received
56% (28/50)
47% (16/34)

Break Factors Transformed
36% (4/11)
50% (2/4)

Winners
50
41

Unforced Errors
19
33

Internet Factors Received
73% (24/33)
79% (30/38)

Max Factors In Row
7
6

Service Factors Received
76% (86/113)
64% (87/136)

Return Factors Received
36% (49/136)
24% (27/113)

Complete Factors Received
54% (135/249)
46% (114/249)

Max Video games In Row
4
3

Service Video games Received
90% (19/21)
81% (17/21)

Return Video games Received
19% (4/21)
10% (2/21)

Complete Video games Received
55% (23/42)
45% (19/42)

Highlights

Sinner Sails Into Quarter Finals

One other commanding efficiency from Jannik Sinner, and he’s by to the quarter-finals with out dropping a set because of a 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 win over Karen Khachanov.

Regardless of the straightforward-looking scoreline, it was Sinner’s largest check of the match to this point, and the Russian performed some high-quality ball that matched the 4th seed for a lot of the match, particularly within the second set, by which he was arguably the higher participant.

Nonetheless, after trying like he might stage the match, Khachanov flopped at 5-5, dropping serve from 40/15 as  Sinner received 4 straight factors to grab the break earlier than serving out the set to like. That was basically the top of the resistance, and Sinner maintained his stage within the third to progress.

It was for positive a special match in the present day. I felt like we each had been hitting the ball very well from the again of the courtroom. Each match is clearly totally different. It’s a pleasure to be right here within the quarter-finals. Clearly proud of the result of the match. Sinner on his straight units win.

Match Stats

 
Jannik Sinner
Karen Khachanov

Aces
8
7

Double Faults
3
0%

1st Serve Proportion
54%
67%

1st Serve Factors Received
79% (41/52)
66% (40/61)

2nd Serve Factors Received
58% (26/45)
47% (14/30)

Break Factors Saved
90% (9/10)
38% (3/8)

1st Return Factors Received
34% (21/61)
21% (11/52)

2nd Return Factors Received
53% (16/30)
42% (19/45)

Break Factors Transformed
63% (5/8)
10% (1/10)

Winners
46
27

Unforced Errors
34
29

Internet Factors Received
90% (26/29)
61% (14/23)

Max Factors In Row
8
7

Service Factors Received
69% (67/97)
59% (54/91)

Return Factors Received
41% (37/91)
31% (30/97)

Complete Factors Received
55% (104/188)
45% (84/188)

Max Video games In Row
4
2

Service Video games Received
93% (14/15)
69% (11/16)

Return Video games Received
31% (5/16)
7% (1/15)

Complete Video games Received
61% (19/31)
39% (12/31)

Highlights

Rublev Reaches Quarter Finals

Andrey Rublev is into the tenth Grand Slam Quarter Last of his profession because of a 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-0 win over Alex de Minaur within the night time session on Rod Laver Enviornment.

The win was additionally the three hundredth tour-level win of his profession and signifies that Stefanos Tsitsipas stays within the prime 10, for now. Had de Minaur bagged the win, the Greek would have slipped to 11 within the rankings, someplace he’s not been since 2019.

Rublev bagged the opening set, however he was pegged by the dogged de Minaur, who has the footspeed to trace down even the heavies of groundstrokes, and with the gang absolutely behind him, the Aussie snatched units two and three on a tie break.

The fourth was a tense affair, with Rublev establishing an early 3-0 lead, solely to relinquish the break. Nonetheless, the Russian didn’t lose his head, breaking once more en path to a 5-2 lead, and he served it out 6-3.

The fifth appeared set to be extra of the identical, however with Rublev trying hampered both by fatigue or harm, he opted to go nuclear on his groundstrokes. De Minaur not had that spring in his step both, and the fifth seed ran away with it, blasting his technique to a bagel.

Huge credit score to Alex. Two units to at least one down, I instructed myself I might die to win this. It’s at all times robust towards Alex; the entire previous matches had been dramatic—one of many quickest gamers and tremendous robust to play. I’m tremendous pleased to be within the quarter-final; we’ll see what occurs. I felt some ache on the finish nevertheless it was regular after 4 hours, tried not to consider it and push myself. Maintain preventing, and we’ll see what’s going to occur. My head is sort of a scary film! A whole lot of feelings, higher to not be inside myself. Rublev on his win over de Minaur.

Match Stats

 
Alex de Minaur
Andrey Rublev

Aces
6
6

Double Faults
6
6%

1st Serve Proportion
53%
59%

1st Serve Factors Received
64% (54/85)
67% (72/107)

2nd Serve Factors Received
50% (38/76)
55% (40/73)

Break Factors Saved
38% (5/13)
81% (13/16)

1st Return Factors Received
33% (35/107)
36% (31/85)

2nd Return Factors Received
45% (33/73)
50% (38/76)

Break Factors Transformed
19% (3/16)
62% (8/13)

Winners
42
39

Unforced Errors
50
64

Internet Factors Received
72% (26/36)
62% (16/26)

Max Factors In Row
8
12

Service Factors Received
57% (92/161)
62% (112/180)

Return Factors Received
38% (68/180)
43% (69/161)

Complete Factors Received
47% (160/341)
53% (181/341)

Max Video games In Row
5
7

Service Video games Received
67% (16/24)
88% (22/25)

Return Video games Received
12% (3/25)
33% (8/24)

Complete Video games Received
39% (19/49)
61% (30/49)

Highlights

Australian Open Day 9 Spherical of 16 Matches