The second week of the Australian Open is here, and with the first few rounds seeing so few upsets, the payoff has finally arrived. A stacked fourth-round lineup sees several heavyweight clashes in Melbourne, with world number ones Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka in action.<\/p>\n
08:20 CET –\u00a0World number three Coco Gauff<\/a> has come through an epic battle against 19th seed Karolina Muchova<\/a> to win 6-1, 3-6, 6-3<\/a> and book her place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n 07:10 CET – Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> was well on course when we last updated you, and he is now into the quarter-finals after a convincing 7-6 (6), 6-4, 7-5<\/a> victory against Tommy Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n 04:55 CET – Carlos Alcarez<\/a> is currently up 7-6(6), 6-4, 2-2<\/a> on Tommy Paul<\/a> in the final men’s match ahead of the quarter-finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n Still coming up on the women’s side is Coco Gauff’s matchup against Karolina Muchova after experiencing a slight delay due to a doubles match.\u00a0<\/p>\n 04:35 CET – The American Iva Jovic<\/a> makes quick work of\u00a0Yulia Putintseva<\/a>, taking just 54 minutes to defeat her in straight sets 6-0, 6-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 18-year-old now moves into her first-ever Grand Slam quarterfinals as she has yet to drop a single set the entire tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n 03:20 CET –\u00a0Victoria Mboko<\/a> came back after being down 4-1 in the second set, but Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> eventually won in the tiebreak to finish off the match in straight sets\u00a06-1, 7(7)-6(1)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sabalenka now advances to her fourth-straight Australian Open quarterfinals matchup and is 9-0 in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n 23:15 CET – Welcome back to the Tennis Tracker tonight, as the fourth round finally begins at the Australian Open, with several excellent clashes to look forward to in the second week of the opening Grand Slam of the year.<\/p>\n Up first on Rod Laver Arena at\u00a001:30 CET, world number one Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> comes up against young starlet Victoria Mboko<\/a> in a fascinating clash, which is then followed by fellow number one Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>‘s meeting with Tommy Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n The night session begins at 09:00 CET, with home favourite Alex de Minaur<\/a> clashing with the in-form Alexander Bublik<\/a>, in what should be a fantastic occasion. The final match on the main court sees two players who have started the season superbly, Mirra Andreeva<\/a> and Elina Svitolina<\/a>, go head-to-head.<\/p>\n The singles action starts on Margaret Court Arena at\u00a004:30 CET, as Coco Gauff<\/a> takes on Karolina Muchova<\/a> in another excellent match. That is swiftly followed by a match-up that proved to be so captivating on several occasions last season, with Daniil Medvedev<\/a> facing Learner Tien<\/a>. Prepare for a slugfest.<\/p>\n On John Cain Arena at\u00a003:00 CET, another wonderful young player, Iva Jovic<\/a>, comes up against Yulia Putintseva<\/a>, with Alexander Zverev<\/a> butting heads with Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second week of the Australian Open is here, and with the first few rounds seeing so few…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-389379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}