{"id":433275,"date":"2026-01-26T00:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433275\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T00:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:38:11","slug":"australian-open-as-it-happened-alex-de-minaur-cruises-into-quarters-ukraines-oliynykova-targets-sabalenka-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433275\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open as it happened: Alex de Minaur cruises into quarters; Ukraine’s Oliynykova targets Sabalenka again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 25, 2026, 05:30 AM ET<\/p>\n

MELBOURNE, Australia — World No. 1s Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> made light work of their fourth round Australian Open opponents to advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament. It wasn’t so simple for top-ranked American Coco Gauff<\/a>, who was made to fight deep into a deciding set against 19th-seed Karolina Muchova<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

The Day 8 evening session was headlined by Australia’s Alex de Minaur<\/a> who dominated Alexander Bublik<\/a>. World No. 3 Alexander Zverev<\/a> continues to fly under the radar with a straight-sets win, but Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, a three-time runner-up at Melbourne Park, was stunned by Learner Tien<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic<\/a>‘s fourth-round opponent Jakub Mensik<\/a> has withdrawn from tomorrow night’s clash, meaning the 10-time champion gets a free passage through to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Catch up on all the latest news, results, match schedules, and more from Day 8 at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 25, 2026, 05:30 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — World No. 1s Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-433275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}