Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will face the quarterfinals on Tuesday after both men made comfortable progress on Sunday.
In the daily session, both matches were shortened for the same reason: Jack Draper and Alejandro Davidovich Fokin could not gather enough physical strength to compete after their previous five -year exploitation in the tournament.
Draper was forced to retire against Carlos Alcaraz on the Rod Laver, while the Spaniard knew 7-5, 6-1. The problem of the hip prevented the British from continuing. Fokina finished his match, but eventually offered little resistance when he fell on Tommy Paul 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 in 87 minutes.
In John Cain Arena Sascha Zverev, he dropped his first ensemble of the tournament, but he recovered nicely to pull out the dangerous UGO Humbert 6-1 2-6 6-3 6-2.
In the night meeting Novak Djokovic faced 24th Semen Jiri Lehecka, who, like his compatriot Tomas Machac, was scheduled as a hard test for a 10-fold champion.
This was followed by another direct outage, when Djokovic controlled the match from start to end, Eonly’s fluctuation when he could not consolidate the break at the beginning of the set 3.
Day eight 2025 Australian open round 16 results
| The winner | Defeated | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Novak Djokovic (7) | To be in legcare (24) | 6-4 6-4 7-6 (4) |
| Carlos Alcaraz (3) | Jack Draper (15) | 7-5 6-1 RET |
| Tommy Paul (12) | Alejandro Davidovich Fokina | 6-1 6-1 6-1 |
| Alexander Zverev (2) | UGO HUMBERT (14) | 6-1 2-6 6-3 6-2 |
Alcaraz is going to Draper Dusten retirement
Given the three five -year -olds of Jack Draper in a row in Melbourne, there would always be important questions about whether he could physically endure the 3th Carlos Alcaraz.
The answer was not because the British was forced to retire when 6-7 1-6 because of the hip injury, which dealt with the non-season that prevented him from going to Spain to train with Alcaraz. At a press conference he revealed that he had tendinitis.
Only with the playing of two sets, there was nothing to see, but again we saw that Alcaraz slips into his unforced errors when he leads 5-2, allowing Draper to cope to 5-5.
However, Alcaraz can usually get Focus quickly and from there won eight of the next nine games, with Draper getting medical care outside the court after the first set.
It’s not a way to win the match to get to the next round. “I’m glad to play in the next quarterfinals in Australia, but a little sad for Jack, he’s a nice person.” It does not deserve an injury. Could not prepare the beginning of the season well for injury. We were supposed to do a good week of overlazon (together), but we couldn’t also be due to injury. I am a little sad for him, but I’m sure he will come back stronger and want to wish him a speedy recovery, I am satisfied with the level I play on the pitch. Outside the court, I feel really comfortable here in Australia. I think it’s pretty good. Physically I feel great, so I come to the second week of Grand Slam, it is really important to feel physically good, because right now the matches are even harder. I’m just ready. I think I’m doing great things outside the court. I am excited to play the second quarterfinal in Australia and hopefully this year will go further. Alcaraz for his victory.
Djokovic is dominated by LEHECKA
On Sunday, Novak Djokovic has created another performance of top shipments at the Rod Laver Arena to create a highly anticipated quarter -finals conflict with Carlos Alcaraz.
Serbian cruises around 24 seeds Jiri Lehecka 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4), which provided a two-hour, 39-minute victory, which was equal to the record of Roger Federera 15 men’s final finals in Melbourne Park.
Djokovic showed its basic dominance of the trademark for the second consecutive match, which was resumed by a Czech, which many thought they would offer a hard challenge due to the premature round of Novak against Basavreddy and Parlia.
However, against Machac and now Lehecka, two Czech players with the best ambitions, basically trained them, committed only 21 unforced mistakes and never looked embarrassing.
Djokovic can now look forward to his Grand Slam meeting with Alcaraz in the hard yard. Novak leads their head 2-3 and won the last at the Olympic Games in Paris.
Other matches 4. Kola
Alexander Zverev abandoned his first ensemble of the tournament, but quickly bounced to defeat Ugo Humbert 6-1, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.
The Frenchman is a lane player who can pull the racket out of the hands of anyone, and did it in the setting of two to equalize things.
However, Zverev, who has a perfect record against the left cloth, was attached and fell only one point after his first service in the set 3 and 4. win the tournament.
World no. 2 will then face Tommy Paul, dominated by Alejander Davidovich Fokin 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 in 87 minutes.
Like Draper, David’s Fokin spent the age in court in the first week and fought in his previous rounds from two sets, and thus pulled quite lame against the 12th seed.
Australian day open day 9 rounds 16 matches
- Jannik Sinner (1) vs Holger Rune (13)
- Alek Michelsen vs Alex de Minaur (8)
- Gael Monfils vs Ben Shelton (21)
- Lorenzo Sonego vs Learner TIEN (Q)
