{"id":390190,"date":"2026-01-25T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390190\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:03:10","slug":"tien-all-grown-up-after-mauling-of-medvedev-at-ao-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390190\/","title":{"rendered":"Tien all grown up after mauling of Medvedev at AO 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/united-states-america\/learner-tien\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learner Tien<\/a> keeps breaking new ground in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/results#!All?dayId=43232\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MORE: All the scores from Day 8 at AO 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One year after reaching the fourth round on his Australian Open main-draw debut as a qualifier, the 20-year-old delivered an emphatic performance on Sunday to dismantle 11th seed Daniil Medvedev 6-4 6-0 6-3, advancing to his maiden Grand Slam quarterfinal and a showdown with AO 2025 finalist Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>With Sunday\u2019s triumph, Tien is the youngest AO men\u2019s quarterfinalist since Nick Kyrgios in 2015, and the youngest American to reach a maiden men\u2019s singles Grand Slam quarterfinal since Andy Roddick at the US Open in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/draws#!mens-singles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MORE: AO 2026 men&#8217;s singles draw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also joins Roddick, Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton as the fourth American man since 2000 to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal before the age of 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels amazing. It\u2019s so special to do it, especially here, where it means so much to me to come back and play every year. This was a big goal for me, and I\u2019m just super happy,\u201d Tien said on court, as fans waving \u2018L\u2019 plates and American flags cheered at the top of their lungs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year since I&#8217;ve been coming here, the crowd support has been amazing. I don\u2019t know why, honestly. It\u2019s so special to come back and play in front of a crowd like this, with this much energy and support. It means the world to me to do it here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Learner Tien keeps breaking new ground in Melbourne. MORE: All the scores from Day 8 at AO 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-390190","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\/390190","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=390190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}