Jan 23, 2026, 05:52 AM ET<\/p>\n
MELBOURNE, Australia — World No. 1s Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> booked their spots in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Friday afternoon, as did Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, who stormed from two sets and a break of serve down to advance to the round of 16, and American fan favourite Coco Gauff<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was also a victorious day for Australia’s top-ranked Alex de Minaur<\/a>, who crushed American Frances Tiafoe<\/a> in straight sets to advance to the fourth round at his home Grand Slam for the fifth successive year.<\/p>\n Yesterday, Naomi Osaka<\/a> stole the show with a hard-fought win over veteran Sorana Cirstea<\/a>, but it was the extra-curriculars which made the headlines. The Japanese star has since apologised to her rival.<\/p>\n Tomorrow, on day seven, matches will begin an hour earlier as temperatures are expected to hit 41 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit). There is also a serious risk play could be suspended under the tournament’s heat policy.<\/p>\n Stay tuned as ESPN’s team of reporters bring you all the latest news, results, match schedules, and more from Day 6 at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 23, 2026, 05:52 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — World No. 1s Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka booked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-425462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}