We’ve got another exciting day of tennis, with Australia taking on Poland in the United Cup quarter-finals, while there are plenty of big names on court in Brisbane, Auckland and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
14:13 CET –\u00a0Daniil Medvedev<\/a> has won the final match of the day in Brisbane, coming from behind to beat Kamil Majchrzak<\/a> 6-7, 6-3, 6-2<\/a> and complete the semi-final lineup.<\/p>\n 13:21 CET – Poland have sealed their spot in the United Cup semi-finals after Katarzyna Kawa<\/a> and Jan Zielinski<\/a> beat Australia’s Storm Hunter<\/a> and John Patrick Smith<\/a> in the decisive doubles rubber, 6-4, 6-0.<\/a><\/p>\n They’ll now face USA for a place in Sunday’s final.<\/p>\n 12:38 CET – Second seed Alexander Bublik<\/a> is safely through to the Hong Kong semi-finals after a convincing 6-1, 7-6(2)<\/a> victory against China’s Juncheng Shang<\/a>.<\/p>\n He’ll face either Marcos Giron<\/a> or Michael Mmoh<\/a> in the last four.<\/p>\n 11:43 CET –\u00a0Over in Brisbane, Marta Kostyuk<\/a> has set up a semi-final date with Jessica Pegula<\/a> after the Ukrainian secured an impressive 7-6(7), 6-3<\/a> win over sixth seed Mirra Andreeva<\/a>.<\/p>\n 11:39 CET – Alex de Minaur<\/a> has drawn Australia level in their United Cup tie with Poland, with the men’s world number six proving too strong for Hubert Hurkacz<\/a> in a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4<\/a> triumph.<\/p>\n Follow the decisive doubles rubber here.<\/a><\/p>\n 10:00 CET – Moving back over to Brisbane, Alex Michelsen<\/a> has beaten fellow American Sebastian Korda<\/a> 6-3, 7-6<\/a> in their quarter-final.<\/p>\n Three of the four semi-final berths are now sewn up in Queensland, and they are all occupied by Americans!\u00a0The fourth won’t be a Yank, however, Michelsean will face the winner of Daniil Medvedev<\/a> and Kamil Majchrzak<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in Hong Kong,\u00a0Andrey Rublev<\/a> has defeated Nuno Borges<\/a> 6-3, 6-4<\/a> to set up a semi-final meeting with top seed Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>.<\/p>\n 09:08 CET –\u00a0Iga Swiatek<\/a> has given Poland the lead in their United Cup quarter-final tie with Australia after a 6-1, 6-1<\/a> dismantling of Maya Joint<\/a> in just 58 minutes.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in Auckland, top seed Elina Svitolina<\/a> has come through an almighty battle to secure her spot in the semi-finals. The Ukrainian saw off Sonay Kartal<\/a> in three sets, 6-4, 6-7(2), 7-6(5)<\/a>.<\/p>\n 08:23 CET –\u00a0Fourth seed Jessica Pegula<\/a> is safely through to the semi-finals in Brisbane after a hard-fought 6-3, 7-6(3)<\/a> triumph over Liudmila Samsonova<\/a>.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> has progressed to the last four in Hong Kong, with the Italian beating home favourite Coleman Wong Chak-lam<\/a> in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n 07:30 CET – Good morning and welcome to our coverage of Friday’s tennis!<\/p>\n There are a few notable results to catch you up on overnight, with women’s top seed Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> seeing off Madison Keys<\/a> 6-3, 6-3<\/a> in Brisbane, while Karolina Muchova<\/a> also moved into the last four after beating Elena Rybakina<\/a> 6-2, 2-6, 6-4<\/a> in a topsy-turvy affair.<\/p>\n On the men’s side of the tournament in Brisbane, Aleksandar Kovacevic<\/a> has battled past Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-3<\/a>, while Alexandra Eala<\/a> and Iva Jovic<\/a> have advanced to the semi-finals in Auckland.<\/p>\n Check out the full schedule for tournaments in Brisbane<\/a> (ATP), Brisbane<\/a> (WTA), Auckland<\/a> (WTA) and Hong Kong<\/a> (ATP) via the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ve got another exciting day of tennis, with Australia taking on Poland in the United Cup quarter-finals, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-402060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}