Quarterfinals continue on Wednesday with the highest seeds remaining in their respective halves of the draw – Zheng Qinwen and Carlos Alcaraz – filling the night session slots.
DAY 11: Schedule of play at AO 2024
The day gets under way at Rod Laver Arena with a first-time meeting between Linda Noskova and Dayana Yastremska. It’s the first time two women outside the top 50 have met in an Australian Open quarterfinal since 1990.
Yastremska, having come through qualifying, has already played three matches more than her opponent, but was in blistering form as she dismissed No.18 seed Victoria Azarenka on Monday.
But it was Noskova, don’t forget, who ended the Australian Open 2024 campaign of No.1 seed Iga Swiatek.
Completing the day session at RLA, No.9 seed Hubert Hurkacz takes on No.3 seed and Australian Open 2022 finalist Daniil Medvedev.
It’s the sixth time the two have met, with Hurkacz just edging the head-to-head 3-2, winning the past two encounters.
Medvedev has only had one straight-sets victory on his way to the quarterfinal; his second-round win over Emil Ruusuvuori was a lengthy five-set affair lasting nearly four and a half hours.
Hurkacz, on the other hand, has spent less time on court but has had to battle hard in his previous two rounds to get past Frenchmen Ugo Humbert in the third and Arthur Cazaux in the fourth.
Zheng takes on Anna Kalinskaya to get the night session started. World No.75 Kalinskaya has won the pair’s only previous meeting, but 12th seed Zheng is in fighting form, having dismissed Oceane Dodin in less than an hour in the fourth round.
Completing the set of quarterfinals, No.2 seed Carlos Alcaraz meets sixth seed Alexander Zverev – an eighth meeting for the pair.
Zverev won their latest meeting – at last year’s ATP Finals – but has had some tough encounters at Melbourne Park this year, most recently a four-hour, five-set battle to get past Great Britain’s Cameron Norrie.
Alcaraz on the other hand took just one hour and 49 minutes to get through his fourth-round outing, a clinical dismissal of Miomir Kecmanovic.