{"id":436346,"date":"2026-01-25T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:25:09","slug":"alexander-bublik-v-alex-de-minaur-aryna-sabalenka-v-victoria-mboko-carlos-alcaraz-v-tommy-paul-coco-gauff-v-karolina-muchova-daniil-medvedev-v-learner-tien-day-8-scores-schedule-draw-times-ho-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436346\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Bublik v Alex de Minaur, Aryna Sabalenka v Victoria Mboko, Carlos Alcaraz v Tommy Paul, Coco Gauff v Karolina Muchova, Daniil Medvedev v Learner Tien, day 8 scores, schedule, draw, times, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex de Minaur will face world No.1 Carlos Alcaraz in an Australian Open quarter-final that instantly becomes the biggest match of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Demon lost twice from two meetings last year with Alexander Bublik, but he demolishes the Kazakh 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in a dominant display that sent a message to all his rivals that he is a title threat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alex de Minaur celebrates his win over Alexander Bublik.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6f02822df94cdfd4fe4502b6d7b3e6d0b9e0d34f.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex de Minaur celebrates his win over Alexander Bublik.Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Demon did in the off-season has supercharged his game because he is playing the best tennis of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz is chasing a Career Grand Slam at Melbourne Park, so is ultra-motivated, and has beaten de Minaur in all five of their showdowns.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not like de Minaur\u2019s record against Jannik Sinner &#8211; he has genuinely challenged Alcaraz at times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I think the last two matches I\u2019ve played, I\u2019ve hit the ball extremely well,\u201d de Minaur said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super pleased with my level. I feel like I\u2019m doing everything I want on the court and, yeah, I\u2019m excited for the next one [against Carlos Alcaraz].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s going to be a big one, right? So, I\u2019m going to have to come out here guns blazing, and I\u2019m excited for a battle against Carlitos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur will face world No.1 Carlos Alcaraz in an Australian Open quarter-final that instantly becomes the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-436346","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\/436346","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=436346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}