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Alex de Minaur has avoided disaster at the Australian Open, escaping a major upset bid to book his fourth consecutive fourth round appearance.
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The Aussie No.8 seed dropped the first set and had to survive a nervous second-set tiebreak, but in a tough and hot 3hr53min clash on Rod Laver Arena, he downed No.31 seed Francisco Cerundolo 5-7 7-6(3) 6-3 6-3.
With de Minaur well below his best, Cerundolo took full advantage in the early stages but appeared to struggle physically, needing medical attention multiple times for his sore legs.
The Argentine managed to save two match points at 5-3 but could not survive another de Minaur service game.
De Minaur will face unseeded American 20-year-old Alex Michelsen for a spot in his first Melbourne Park quarter-final on Monday.
He is trying to become the first local man to make the last 16 at the Australian Open since Nick Kyrgios in 2015.
“Something you can always count on is, even if I don’t play my best, I’m going to compete until the end,” de Minaur said post-match.
This was de Minaur’s first ever Australian Open win over a seeded opponent, and he is now 16-0 against players ranked lower than him at this event. Michelsen is the world No.42.
“He’s been playing some amazing tennis this week,” de Minaur said.
“He’s a kid playing with a lot of confidence, so I’m expecting another battle. But I love these battles.”
De Minaur would’ve gone to bed hopeful of having a compatriot to join in the fourth round, but early this morning Aleks Vukic fell to No.15 seed Jack Draper in five sets.
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Meanwhile French veteran Gael Monfils has pulled a stunning upset over No.4 seed Taylor Fritz, knocking him out in four sets, 3-6 7-5 7-6(1) 6-4.
Iga Swiatek warned Saturday her best was yet to come and the ball was “listening” to her as she sounded an ominous warning to her Australian Open rivals with a third-round rout of Emma Raducanu.
The five-time Grand Slam champion has only once reached the semi-final in Melbourne but signalled she is ready to go all the way with a 6-1, 6-0 destruction of the 2021 US Open winner.
World number two Swiatek sailed into the second week for the loss of only 10 games in three matches and warned she would only get better.
She’ll face Eva Lys in the fourth round, after the 128th-ranked German made history.
The 23-year-old fought back from a set down to become the first women’s singles “lucky loser” to reach the fourth round since the event moved to Melbourne Park in 1988.
She defeated Jaqueline Cristian of Romania 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
A “lucky loser” is a player who loses in qualifying but later gets a ticket into the main draw following another player’s withdrawal, usually because of illness or injury.
It has been a whirlwind few days for Ukraine-born Lys.
She lost in the final round of qualifying in Melbourne last week, her hopes of making the first major of the year seemingly over.
Her bags were packed and her flight out of Melbourne booked. But she hung about on the off-chance that another player would drop out and 13th seed Anna Kalinskaya did just that on Tuesday, suddenly giving Lys another Australian Open life.
She said she had just 10 minutes’ warning before defeating home player Kimberly Birrell in straight sets in the first round, then beat Varvara Gracheva of France.
This is Lys’s best performance at a major.
Emma Navarro credited her billionaire father for teaching her “toughness” as a child Saturday after she ground past Ons Jabeur into the Australian Open last 16.
The 23-year-old American eighth seed clawed through 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 on Margaret Court Arena, her third straight three-set match.
She will play Russian ninth seed Daria Kasatkina for a place in the quarter-finals.
Meanwhile Destanee Aiava has delivered a hilarious response to the anti-doping test she received on Friday, following her controversial exit at the hands of American Danielle Collins.
“Someone needs to find a less invasive way to test us for drugs,” Aiava tweeted on Friday evening.
“and idk (I don’t know) why i’m being tested im literally 300 in the world the only thing ill be tested positive for is mental illness.”
The self-deprecating Aiava is actually ranked in the 170s after making it to the second round of her home slam.
Collins, who drew the ire of Aussie fans for her celebrations after beating Aiava, plays tonight against compatriot Madison Keys.
Elsewhere at Melbourne Park today the Junior Boys and Girls Singles competitions get underway, with Aussie Emerson Jones the No.1 seed in the latter, while Cruz Hewitt (the son of Lleyton) and Jagger Leach (the son of Lindsay Davenport) are amongst the competitors in the former.
AUSTRALIAN OPEN DAY 7 ORDER OF PLAY (All times AEDT)
Rod Laver Arena
Day session from 11:30am
Emma Raducanu (GBR) vs No.2 Iga Swiatek (POL)
Not before 2pm
No.31 Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) vs No.8 Alex de Minaur (AUS)
Night session from 7pm
No.1 Jannik Sinner (ITA) vs Marcos Giron (USA)
No.19 Madison Keys (USA) vs No.10 Danielle Collins (USA)
Margaret Court Arena
Day session from 11:30am
No.8 Emma Navarro (USA) vs Ons Jabeur (TUN)
Not before 1pm
No.4 Taylor Fritz (USA) vs Gael Monfils (FRA)
Night session from 7pm
No.28 Elina Svitolina (UKR) vs No.4 Jasmine Paolini (ITA)
Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) vs No.13 Holger Rune (DEN)
John Cain Arena
Day session from 11am
Alex Michelsen (USA) vs No.19 Karen Khachanov (RUS)
Not before 2pm
No.6 Elena Rybakina (KAZ) vs No.32 Dayana Yastremska (UKR)
Not before 5pm
No.21 Ben Shelton (USA) vs No.16 Lorenzo Musetti (ITA)
