Tim, deleted; Halep Serena, a duel in the quarters

Austrian Dominic Timm (3) Farewell to Melbourne Park against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (19) By falling in the round of 16 of the Australian Open 6-4 6-4 6-0. Meanwhile, the women’s team will have an excellent meeting between American Serena Williams (10) and Romanian Simona Halep, beating Belarusian Arena Sabalenka (7) and Poland’s Ijia Sweatk (15), respectively.

Current finalist Tim has arrived Accused of accumulated fatigue after returning to local Nick Kyrios In a five-set match in the previous round, it was run over by the excellent Dimitrov, who arrived again after playing only one set in the third round as a result of the abandonment of Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta.

Weirdo theme, who made 41 non-coercive mistakes (23 more than his competitor), He did not live up to expectations that were too high due to his status as a current champ US Open.

Bulgarian executioner Dimitrov It proved once again why the Australian “flagship” was his major tournament He preferred after reaching the quarter-finals for the fourth time in his career.

His next opponent will be Russian Aslan Karatsev, who was confirmed to have unveiled the championship after ousting Canadian Felix Oger-Aliassim (20) in the round of 16.

On his part, the German Alexander Zverev (6) Solve with the sheet, his 16th round, against Serbian Dusan Lajovic (23) 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-3, while his fiftieth wins were in the Grand Slam competition.

“It was cooler than usual, but I am very happy to be in three sets,” he said after the match.

He returned to deliver his most intimidating side by taking fourteen aces And 43 winning strikes were necessary to quickly beat Lajovic that forced him to rule in five sets on the last two occasions they met in Roland Garros (2018 and 2019).

Zverev will strongly reach his commitment in the quarter-finals, where he will face Serbian Novak Djokovic (1) or Canadian Milos Raonic (14), after having finished his last three matches without giving up a single set.

Young tennis player got from Hamburg Reaching the quarter-finals for the second year in a row Thus, he became the sixth German to skip the last 16 on more than one occasion.

In the women’s competition, American Serena fought a huge battle by defeating Belarusian Arena Sabalenka (7) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Serena, who claimed the most titles (7) in Melbourne Park in the open era, will still have options to match the Margaret Court brand. As a player with the most Grand Slam titles (24), He has only three matches left.

Despite the victory, the Michigan tennis player gave up a group for the first time in the tournament after concluding her first match in straight sets against German Laura Siegmund, Serbian Nina Stojanovic and Russian Anastasia Potapova.

It was the first time since he started his career in Melbourne Park That the American encounters the workbook.

The next hurdle, Romanian Halep avenged the crushing semi-final defeat she suffered in the last Roland Garros by Polish Swiatek, beating them 3-6, 6-1 and 6-4.

“It was so hard, I knew it was going to hurt me a lot with this right spin. I tried to recline a little to get her to run more. ”He said after the match ended.

The young Polish, who went from accumulating eleven non-compulsive fouls in the first half to nineteen fouls in the final set, was unable to maintain the lead on the scoreboard.

As Roman explains, she changed her strategy when aware of her opponent’s punch and took a step back to be able to get more play. His desire to pursue a competitor’s failure It led him to commit only 17 non-coercive mistakes In a match that lasted nearly two hours.

Despite her clearly unfavorable background facing her upcoming rival Serena (2-9), her most recent memory is the victory she won in the Wimbledon Final in 2019 when Romanian won 6 duels.

Spanish Garbin Muguruza (14) She lost in the second round to Japanese Naomi Osaka (3), 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, In what was a fantastic high-level tennis fight.

Muguruza, the current finalist, missed two match points against the rest when he reversed the scoreboard 5-3 in his favor in the third set. However, she left with her head held high, despite a bitter defeat to complete two weeks in Melbourne, in which she had amassed seven wins and two losses, against local Ashley Barty (1) and Osaka herself.

“I didn’t know what to expect because we had never encountered it. I was intimidated before I started because I knew very well how I got into the gameOsaka was suspended after a two-hour match ended.

The confrontation was called out to be an epic battle for the unbeatable status of the Grand Slam champion by not conceding one set in the first three rounds.

The domination with the two candidates being served increased the score on the scoreboard to 5-4At this point, Muguruza managed a break in time to set his first heat against Osaka, which reached 195 kilometers per hour.

Muguruza’s self-confidence continued in the second set, which opened with an early “break”. However, realizing how her chances of surviving in Melbourne Park had diminished, Osaka brought her best tennis to the rest to hold the tie once again in the second round.

Muguruza’s suspicions, accompanied by Osaka’s toughness towards the rest, lThey took the match to a final set that started with both tennis players shielding their matches To serve until he gave the Spaniards a 2-2 forward pass to get close to the quarter-finals.

The Spanish tennis player, born in Caraca, scored a match that touched the supremacy with a score of 4-3 in her favor, after converting three aces, one of which was to save the “break” ball, and signing one of Best Match Score by connecting a winning parallel backhand found 5-3.

It was in the next match when Muguruza got two match points at 15-40, which was saved by Osaka after tying a direct serve and capitalizing on an unintended foul by Spain.

His physical fitness prevented him from maintaining the same level of aggressiveness as Osaka He ended up taking a “maximum” break that qualified him for a next round Where she will face Taiwanese Su-Wei Hsieh, 35 and 71 in the world, who continues to make history by defeating Czech Markita Fondrosova, 6-2, 6-4 and making her best career in Grand Slam. ..

“She’s always a very strong opponent.” Osaka commented on the talented Hsieh, after playing the first match against Muguruza, if I am not angry I will have a great time but now I have to rest because it was a very difficult game.