SNAPSHOT FROM DAY SEVEN OF THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN AT MELBOURNE PARK
PLAYER OF THE DAY: Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina upset world No.1 Iga Swiatek, reserving her spot within the quarter-finals with a 6-4 6-4 win. Swiatek was favorite to win her first Open title however had no solutions to the big-serving twenty second seed.
STAT OF THE DAY: Karen Khachanov received the primary 14 video games of his fourth-round match as he produced a 6-0 6-0 7-6 (7-4) mauling of Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka. Khachanov defeated Nick Kyrgios within the quarter-finals of final 12 months’s US Open and has rediscovered the shape that thrust him into the world’s high 10 4 years in the past.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I got a little superstitious with the towel. The towel got me through it. Every time I went to the towel, I won the point, so I just kept going to it.” – American rising star Sebastian Korda reveals an uncommon secret to his success in a rollercoaster match tiebreaker towards Hubert Hurkacz.
TOURNAMENT SUMMARY: Upsets grabbed the headlines as unseeded Czech Jiri Lehecka continued his giant-killing run with a four-set overcome Canadian star Felix Auger-Aliassime and Rybakina despatched Swiatek packing. World No.7 Coco Gauff was lowered to tears after her straight-sets defeat to big-hitting Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, however American third seed Jessica Pegula superior on the expense of Barbora Krejcikova.
