{"id":433009,"date":"2026-01-23T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:09:08","slug":"friday-night-lights-bublik-completes-4r-line-up-in-mens-top-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433009\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night lights: Bublik completes 4R line-up in men&#8217;s top half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/kazakhstan\/alexander-bublik#!latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Bublik<\/a> completed the AO 2026 fourth-round line-up in the top half of the men&#8217;s draw on Friday night, continuing his <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/articles\/news\/on-hot-streak-unbeaten-players-making-their-mark-melbourne-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dream unbeaten start to the season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/rankings\/singles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The newly-minted top-10 player<\/a> scored a 7-6(4) 7-6(5) 6-4 win over Tomas Martin Etcheverry to set up a blockbuster with sixth seed Alex de Minaur, after the Aussie star dismissed Frances Tiafoe in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Also advancing on Friday evening was Argentine <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/argentina\/francisco-cerundolo#!latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francisco Cerundolo<\/a>, who posted the best AO result of his career with an upset win over Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n<p>In his first fourth-round appearance in Melbourne, Cerundolo will face Alexander Zverev, the third seed and last year&#8217;s finalist who overcame Cameron Norrie at John Cain Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Bublik completed the AO 2026 fourth-round line-up in the top half of the men&#8217;s draw on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-433009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433009","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=433009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}