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In the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tennis tournament of the season, 9-time champion Novak Djokovic reached the quarter-finals.
The 8th-day singles matches of the tournament held in Melbourne have been completed.
In the fourth round of men's singles, Djokovic, the most successful player in the history of the tournament with 9 championships, defeated 22 seeded Australian Alex de Minaur 3-0 with 6-2, 6-1 and 6-2 sets after 2 hours and 6 minutes of struggle. and matched with Russian Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals.
World number 35 Tommy Paul beat 24 seeded Spanish Roberto Bautista Agut 3-1 (6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5) to reach his most successful level in Grand Slams. The US tennis player will face Ben Shelton from the same country in the quarterfinals.
The quarterfinals will start tomorrow. Stefanos Tsitsipas-Jiri Lehecka and Karen Khachanov-Sebastian Korda in men's singles; Jessica Pegula-Victoria Azarenka and Elena Rybakina-Jelena Ostapenko competitions will be played in women's singles.