It\u2019s another huge day of quarter-final action at the Australian Open, with Jannik Sinner, Iga Swiatek and Novak Djokovic all taking to the court in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
06:45 CET –\u00a0Some really sad news to bring you as Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> has been forced to retire through injury against Novak Djokovic<\/a> despite racing into a two-set lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Italian was leading 6-4, 6-3, 1-3<\/a> when he was forced to retire in a deeply unfortunate turn of events.\u00a0<\/p>\n 05:45 CET – The men’s matchup between Novak Djokovic and Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> is underway!<\/p>\n 05:15 CET\u00a0– Jessica Pegula<\/a> battles back after being down 3-5 in the second set to defeat\u00a0Amanda Anisimova<\/a> 6-2, 7(7)-6(1)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n She now reaches her first-ever Australian Open semifinal after earning her second top 10 win of the year, where she’ll face Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n 04:30 CET –\u00a0Jessica Pegula<\/a> is up 1-0<\/a> on Amanda Anisimova<\/a> after taking the first set 6-2. Anisimova is currently ahead in the second set 2-1 as the two Americans continue to square off.<\/p>\n 03:25 CET – Elena Rybakina<\/a> defeats Iga Swiatek<\/a> in straight sets 7-5, 6-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n She ends the match on an ace and has yet to lose a single one of her 10 sets in the entirety of this year’s Australian Open.<\/p>\n She has now won 18 of her last 19 matches as she advances to her fourth Grand Slam semifinal, her first for this tournament in three years.<\/p>\n 02:50 CET – Elena Ryabkina takes the first set 7-5 in her match against Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n 23:30 CET –\u00a0Good evening and welcome to today\u2019s Tennis Tracker, as the remaining two men’s and women’s quarter-finals take place on a mouthwatering day of match-ups!<\/p>\n Play gets started in a couple of hours at 01:30 CET, with Career Grand Slam-chasing Iga Swiatek<\/a> facing 2023 finalist Elena Rybakina<\/a> in a heavyweight tussle on Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n Following that clash, fourth seed and runner-up at the previous two majors, Amanda Anisimova<\/a>, comes up against compatriot Jessica Pegula<\/a>, who knocked out defending champion Madison Keys<\/a> in the previous round.<\/p>\n Later on, the first of two men’s matches sees 10-time former champion Novak Djokovic<\/a> take on fifth seed Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>, with the Italian looking to continue his remarkable improvement on the surface.<\/p>\n And last but by no means least, defending champion Jannik Sinner<\/a> faces big-serving American Ben Shelton<\/a>. That match is expected to get underway after\u00a009:00 CET.<\/p>\n Check out the full men’s schedule here<\/a> and the full women’s draw here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s another huge day of quarter-final action at the Australian Open, with Jannik Sinner, Iga Swiatek and Novak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-434396","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\/434396","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=434396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}