{"id":429324,"date":"2026-01-25T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429324\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:13:07","slug":"iva-jovic-walking-in-venus-williams-footsteps-with-melbourne-quarter-final-date-australian-open-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429324\/","title":{"rendered":"Iva Jovic walking in Venus Williams\u2019 footsteps with Melbourne quarter-final date | Australian Open 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iva Jovic became the youngest American woman to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open<\/a> since Venus Williams in 1998, by dismantling the Kazakhstani veteran Yulia Putintseva 6-0, 6-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

At 18 years old, Jovic arrived in Melbourne as the youngest player inside the top 100 and the 27th seed has dominated all opposition, rolling through her four matches without dropping a set. Jovic\u2019s third-round win against the No 7 seed Jasmine Paolini was the first top 20 win of her career. Still, Jovic rejected the notion that she is swinging freely with nothing to lose.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really feel like there is a lot of house money or underdog mentality that I\u2019m feeling, because I don\u2019t feel like I have been playing anything outside of my comfort zone or outside of my normal level,\u201d Jovic said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have come from two other tournaments where I was playing every day and winning a lot of matches, as well. So this week and the level that I\u2019m showing right now doesn\u2019t really feel much different than that. So it\u2019s just another week that I\u2019m winning more matches, which is nice to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jovic\u2019s supreme performances have afforded her the biggest match of her young career as she will face Aryna Sabalenka, the No 1 seed and two-time champion, in the quarter-final. Sabalenka displayed one of her most impressive performances of the tournament, elevating her level after a late surge from the immensely talented 19-year-old Victoria Mboko to win 6-1, 7-6 (1) and advance to her 13th consecutive grand slam quarter-final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shortly after their matches on Sunday, Jovic returned to the court in doubles alongside Mboko, where the pair competed for 2hr 39min against the fourth seeds Elise Mertens and Zhang Shuai before narrowly losing 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (10). \u201cMe and Vicky signed up for this doubles for fun. We went to the first match, and we were not sure if there was [advantages]. So we were asking the ref, \u2018Do we play ads? What\u2019s going on here?\u2019 Then we realised there were ads, and I didn\u2019t realise until today that there was a third set. So I was like, \u2018Oh, my God, what? This is going to be three times longer than my singles match.\u2019 Then it went six in the third.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at that point, I was like, all right. One of the most unbelievable doubles matches I\u2019ve ever played. It was outrageous. The crowd was going crazy. There were so many long points. It was a lot of fun. My soul is a little hurt that we lost that one, because it got so close, and I wanted that win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff and Elina Svitolina will face each other in the other top half quarter-final after Gauff, the third seed, survived the 19th seed Karolina Muchova 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 and Svitolina, seeded 12th, upset the eighth seed Mirra Andreeva 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz beats Tommy Paul in a convincing win to advance to the quarter-finals. Photograph: Izhar Khan\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s draw the top seed, Carlos Alcaraz, will face the sixth seed Alex de Minaur after the Australian rolled past Alexander Bublik<\/a>, the 10th seed, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. The 25th seed, Learner Tien, meanwhile, was responsible for the most eye-catching result of the day as he demolished the 11th seed and three-time finalist Daniil Medvedev 6-4, 6-0, 6-3.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe played great,\u201d Medvedev said. \u201cHe played great. Super-aggressive. Even when I was making good shots, he was making a better shot back. Didn\u2019t find many solutions today on the court, which is rare, and I didn\u2019t feel that many times in my life like this. But these things can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tien will face Alexander Zverev after the third seed eased past Francisco Cerundolo, the 18th seed, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iva Jovic became the youngest American woman to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open since Venus Williams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-429324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429324","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=429324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}