{"id":431371,"date":"2026-01-26T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431371\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:00:12","slug":"as-it-happened-sinner-into-quarters-heat-cancels-some-of-tomorrows-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431371\/","title":{"rendered":"As it happened: Sinner into quarters, heat cancels some of tomorrow’s matches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 26, 2026, 06:33 AM ET<\/p>\n

MELBOURNE, Australia — There were no huge upsets on Day 9 of the Australian Open, with all the higher-ranked seeds getting the job done in fourth-round action.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

1 Related<\/p>\n

First it was Jessica Pegula<\/a> who took down good friend and last year’s champion Madison Keys<\/a> to set up a quarterfinal bout with Amanda Anisimova<\/a>, while in-form Italian Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> proved too much for Taylor Fritz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two-time defending champion Jannik Sinner<\/a> was too strong for Luciano Darderi, while Ben Shelton<\/a>‘s match with Casper Ruud<\/a> was moved onto centre court following Jakub Mensik<\/a>‘s withdrawal due to injury, with Novak Djokovic<\/a> getting a clear passage through to the quarters.<\/p>\n

Catch up with how Day 9 unfolded at the Australian Open below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 26, 2026, 06:33 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — There were no huge upsets on Day 9 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-431371","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\/431371","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=431371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}