On the sixth day of the Australian Open, there were no spectators on the court to applaud the best of players, while second seeded Rafael Nadal, Daniel Medvedev and top seeded women Ash Barty and Elena Svitolina entered the fourth round. Spanish star Nadal won 7-5, 6-2, 7-5 against Cameroon Nouri. Nadal will now face No. 16 Fabio Fognini. The Italian won a straight-game victory over Australia’s 21st-ranked Alex de Minaur.
Nadal went into the tournament with hamstring strain, trying to win a record 21st major title and never played any competitive matches before 2021. He finished 14th out of 16 in the fourth round at Melbourne Park. Nadal, the 69th-ranked player, made only two errors against Nouri and lost the service only once. However they make more spontaneous mistakes (35) than Wiener (33). At the same time, Carolina Pliskova, the No. 6 female player, suffered a back injury. Barty entered the fourth round of the Australian Open for the third year in a row, beating Russian Ikaterina Alexandrov 6-2, 6-4.
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Medvedev defeated World No. 28 Phillip Krajinovic 6-3, 6-3, 4-6 in five sets to beat world number five Svitolina 6-4, 6-0 and 26-year-old Yulia Putinseva. 0, defeated. A five-day lockdown has been imposed after a case of corona infection in a hotel in Victoria province. Before this, 30,000 visitors were coming to court every day for five days. In the quarterfinals, Andr ರು Rubelew defeated 39-year-old Feliciano Lopez 7–5, 6–2, 6–3 against Medvedev. Seventh-seeded Rublev will face off in the fourth round against Norway’s Casper Rudd.
Karen Khachanov, ranked 19th among Russian players, defeated ninth seed Matteo Beretini 7-6, 7-6, 7-6. Berettini will now face fifth seed Stephanos Tsitsipas, who defeated Sweden’s Michael Yammer 6-4 6-1 6-1. In the women’s division, Barty will now face US-based Shelby Rogers, who defeated 21st-ranked Annette Kantowat 6-4, 6-3. In the absence of an audience, Barty said, “It feels like practice so we’re quite accustomed to it.” Elise Mertens took just 62 minutes to defeat 11th-seeded Belinda Bensich 6-2, 6-1. The 18th-seeded Mertens will face Carolina Muchova in the fourth round and upset Pliskova 7-5, 7-5.
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Svitolina reached the Wimbledon and US Open semifinals in 2019. With this victory, the fourth-seeded Medvedev’s winning streak was 17 games. He won the last ATP finals of the season in 2020. Medvedev, who reached the US Open final last year, will now face McKenzie MacDonald. At the same time, 61st seed Jessica Pegula defeated Christina Mladenovic 6–2, 6–1 to enter the final four. He defeated two-time champion Victoria Azarenka in the first round. Now he will face Svitolina.
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