Naomi Osaka has no shortage of health problems in recent years. (Photo by Hannah Peters / Getty Images)
Naomi Osaka could face a significant injury, with the Australian Open from 2025 to almost a week.
The former Grand Grand Slam world champion N ° 1 and four times retired from the WTA Auckland Open final, the last development before the Australian Open, with an apparent medical problem on Sunday. She had directed Clara Tauson 6-4 from Denmark before her release left Tauson as a tournament champion.
Before it withdraws, Osaka received the attention of sports coaches for its abdomen, which was apparently the problem. According to the veteran journalist for tennis and biographer of Osaka Ben Rothenberg, she had a tearful eyes when he called a coach.
The problem is an approximate obstacle for Osaka, who had been playing in her first final since the Miami 2022 Open. She returned to tennis in 2024 after a year -long interruption after the birth of her first child, but reached a quarter in the finals of a single tournament and did not progress with the second round of a Grand Chelem.
Her 2024 ended after her retirement from China Open with a back injury when she was tied in sets with Coco Gauff.
It is not clear if this problem will affect the availability of Gauff for the Australian Open. The simple draw in Melbourne is scheduled for next Thursday, the first round to start three days later Sunday.
The American Jessica Pegula fell to Olga Danilovic in Serbia in two sets in the third round of the Australian Open. (APTO Photo / Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)
Day 6 of Australian Open saw a number of big names in male and female singles easily go to the next round. But a major loss was noted n ° 7 Jessica Pegulawho was defeated in two sets by Serbian Olga Danilović.
Pegula and Danilović fought in the first set, the Serbian winning in an equality break, 7-3. But in the second set, the American has completely wobble, allowing Danilović to win a 6-1 victory and to secure the match with relative ease.
Pegula, who made the quarter -finals of the Australian Open for three consecutive years, is now released early. Danilović, 23 ,, meanwhile, will go to the fourth round of Australian Open for the first time in his young career – and has a fan of his Serbian compatriot Novak Djokovic.
Djokovic, ranked n ° 7, had his own success on Friday, beating the Czech player Tomas Machac In right sets, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. The 37 -year -old Serb has now made the fourth round of the Australian Open each year since 2007, only two exceptions (2017, when he was turned upside down in the second round, and 2022, while he did not competed due to a saga implying that it is not vaccinated against COVID-19).
N ° 2 Alexander Zverev Also won in straight sets, the Germans beating the United Kingdom Jacob Fearnley 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
Aryna SabalenkaThe female n ° 1, launched the day with a 7-6 victory (5), 6-4 against the Danish player Clara Tauson. N ° 3 Coco Gauff won a victory in his own sets, beating n ° 30 Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-2. The young American defeated the young Canadian typical of Gauff, making delicate sweet touches and an aggressive game for easy victory.
N ° 3 Carlos Alcaraz Portuguese player defeated Nuno Borges In four sets, 6-2, 6-4, 6 (3) -7, 6-2. After taking an advance of two sets, Alcaraz has weakened in the third set, letting Borges catch up and win the break in equality. But the 21 -year -old Spaniard did not stay long, easily returning the next set to go to the fourth round. Alcaraz succeeded in the victory in a typical way: to place fair shots and using his endurance to survive his opponent.
Unfortunately, Naomi OsakaThe return attempt ended. Osaka, who has had injuries in recent years, has made the third round of the open for the first time in three years. His match against the Swiss player Belinda Bencic started well, Bencic barely taking the first triggering a break in equality, 7-6 (3). But Osaka was forced to withdraw early from the match due to a tense abdominal muscle.
Osaka had retired early from the Auckland Open final this month, also with an abdominal injury. It is not known if the injury will affect if it can play in the future.
In the most exhausting match of the day, n ° 15 Jack draper won a five sets victory against Australia Aleksandar Vukic6-4, 2-6, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8). It took almost four hours and an equality break of 18 points so that Draper won the victory. The two players had made five complete sets in their two previous games, which makes the match on Friday even more a marathon.
Draper, at the end, survived Vukic, making an impressive success around the post in the process.
“My body does not feel too well. Fortunately I have a good physio,” admitted draper after the match. He credited the crowd for giving him the energy to continue to cross the five set.
DRAPER will need this energy in two days: he should face Alcaraz, who is notoriously strong in matches in five sets, in the fourth round on Sunday.
Madison Keys in the United States won nine consecutive games while flying out towards the quarter-finals of the Australian Open after a victory over Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan on Monday January 20, 2025.
Seed n ° 19 Madison Keys marked the big upheaval on the 9th day of the Australian Open, beating n ° 6 Elena Rybakina 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 at Margaret Court Arena to qualify for the quarter-finals of the tournament.
Rybakina led a back injury throughout the match and has always been able to rally and win the second set. However, she had no answer for the keys that constantly returned her service.
After his third round victory over Dayana Yastremska, Rybakina admitted to journalists that her back was an important obstacle, saying “it doesn’t seem too good” and needed “magic” to move forward in the tournament.
Keys won nine consecutive games and beat Rybakina after losing her last two games against her.
“I really had to focus on so much feedback today. His service is such a weapon,” Keys said in his post-match interview. “I knew that if I could just try to make at least some of his competitive service games, I was lucky.”
Keys will face Elina Svitolina in the quarter -final match on Wednesday. Svitolina advanced by beating Veronika Kudermetova in two sets, 6-4, 6-1.
N ° 1 male seed and title champion of the Australian Open Jannik sinner Name a disease that has caused several medical delays throughout his fourth round match. The game was also delayed by a broken net in the fourth set.
The sinner finally prevailed on No. 13 Holger Rune, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, but he obviously fought during the match, seen shaking while seated between sets.
“Today was a very strange morning. I did not even warn myself today, trying to go on the field as in shape as possible,” said Sinner to Jim Courier after the match. “I knew in my mind just before the match I would fight today.”
With the victory, Sinner became the fourth player to reach the quarter -finals in 15 consecutive events at the tour, joining Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. At 23, he is the youngest male player to win 18 consecutive games from the Grand Chelem Hard Court since John McENROE did in 1981.
The sinner will face the native Australian Alex de Minaur in the quarterfinals. The seeded n ° 8 exceeded the fourth round of the tournament for the first time with a victory over Alex Michelsen, 6-0, 7-6 (5), 6-3.
De Minaur is the first Australian male player to do the Australian open districts since Nick Kyrgios did in 2015. Previously, he qualified in the quarter -finals at the US Open, in French Open and Wimbledon.
“It means the world,” said Minaur after the match. “There is nothing that I want to do more than playing here in Australia in front of you, so I’m happy to have finally reached a quarter -final here. Come on for bigger and better things.”
De Minaur and Sinner clashed nine times, the Italians winning all their matches.
Also in the fourth round of the female draw, seeded n ° 8 Emma Navarro endured three sets to beat the n ° 9 Daria Kasatkina, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5. The match was a back and forth business with each player constantly breaking the other service. Kasatkina seemed to be on the verge of linking the third set, but wandered with four consecutive mistakes.
Navarro did not take an easy road to the quarter -finals, needing three sets to win its three games in the Australian Open this year. She beat Peyton Stearns in the first round, 6-7, 7-6, 7-5, then defeated Xyu Wang in the second round, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. In the third round, Navarro fought to beat Ons Jabeur, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
Seed n ° 2 IGA SwiTEK Aways Navarro in the quarter-final match on Wednesday after easily sent Eva Lys to two sets, 6-0, 6-1. Each of this year’s Swiatek games in the Australian Open was consecutive victories.
Perhaps as a warning to Navarro, Swiatek says she has room to improve.
“I do not yet have the impression of being in my peak, but matches like that certainly give me confidence,” said Swiatek in his post-match interview. “I feel like I’m playing a good game.”
Outside the field, Swiatek has learned that the World Anti -Doping Agency will not appeal its suspension of a month for having tested the prohibited substance of trimetazidine positive in August. The AMA examination on the case determined that the positive test of Swiatek was the result of the contamination of the melatonin it took.
Swiatek served a one -month suspension that ended on December 4.
Novak Djokovic may seem frightening when he celebrates, but he won him after beating Carlos Alcaraz in the Australian open quarters 2025. (Reuters / Edgar SU)
Day 10 of Australian Open 2025 ended much later than normal, thanks to a generally epic quarter -final match between Novak Djokovic And Carlos Alcaraz. These two have developed a little rivalry in the field in recent years, Alcaraz, 21, a tennis racket and a sneer.
Tuesday, Djokovic came out in the lead. While Alcaraz took the first set, Djokovic a Rugi and suffocated Alcaraz in the following three sets, winning 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Djokovic goes to the semi-finals where he will face the seed n ° 2 Alexander Zverev Friday.
The Australian Open is the Djokovic playground. He was more successful than in any other adult, winning 10 of his 24 Grand Chelem trophies in Melbourne. He knows the courtyard, he knows the crowd, and above all, he knows himself. Although the rise of young people, talented and convincing like Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner can give the impression that Djokovic’s time in the sun is over, he is clearly not ready to enter the twilight of his career. He is there by beating ultra-spicing players like Alcaraz who are 16 years old his junior.
The era of the three large ones ended. But the era of Djokovic is still strong.
While Djokovic shot a major obstacle on his way on day 10, he was bad for the Americans at the Australian Open. Five Americans overall reached the quarterfinals, but the best classified woman and man were both lost on Tuesday.
Seed n ° 3 Coco Gauff saw his open Australian trip end with his loss at n ° 11 Paula Badosa in right sets. Gauff was not overwhelmed by Badosa, but did not play properly. It served six double defects and had 41 uns forked errors, compared to the two double defects of Badosa and 23 uns forked errors.
Tommy PaulSowing 12th, also lost, beaten by the seeded n ° 2 which hunts its first major trophy with great intensity. Zverev beat Paul 7-6 (1), 7-6 (0), 2-6, 6-1 in a end and trendy match. Zverev judged the two equality breaks to win sets one and two, but Paul was released and dominated Zverev in the third set. But Zverev, who can play as a force of nature, returned and slammed a fast fourth set victory to take the match.
The n ° 1 seed of women Aryna Sabalenka defeated n ° 27 Anastasia pavlyuchenkovaBut not without any problem. Sabalenka won 6-2, 2-6, 6-3, but dropped her first set from the whole tournament. And it was not close either. For the first time at the Australian Open 2025, Sabalenka was overwhelmed and preceded. Pavlyuchenkova could not make a big bump in the sets it has lost, but it shows that the domination of Sabalenka can be broken in the right circumstances.
The three remaining Americans will then play their games in the quarter -final. N ° 19 Madison Keys will face n ° 28 Elina Svitolina, while n ° 8 Emma Navarro Will beat n ° 2 iga swiatek. It will be a difficult match for Navarro, because Swiatek was as dominant as Sabalenka – Swiatek’s opponents in his last three games have won a total of four games. On the side of men, n ° 21 Ben Shelton is confronted with the SONEGO LORENZO not series. If Shelton wins, he will play in his second Grand Chelem semi-final in career, his first since 2023 US Open.
Madison Keys is under Australian semi-finals after joining Elina Svitolina on Wednesday. (Graham Denholm / Getty Images)
Madison Keys was on the strings, but joined Wednesday to qualify for the semi-finals of Australian Open.
N ° 28 Elina Svitolina first struck the Keys of 12th seeded, but Keys obtained a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory in the first final match of the day at Rod Laver Arena . Keys’ victory follows the quarter -finals of the third head of Coco Gauff, which was turned upside down by the Spanish seed of Paula Badosa.
Next for Keys is the seeded n ° 2 IGA Swiatek, who crossed the seeded n ° 8 Emma Navarro in the quarter-final of other women on Wednesday to spoil a chance in an American semi-final. Swiatek broke Navarro on the match opening service, giving the tone to a dominant victory 6-1, 6-2.
Keys Rallyes, settles after unl in forced errors
Keys and Svitolina played even earlier, because each player was on the road to a 4-3 lead for Svitolina. But the uncant-up errors finally caught up with the keys while Svitolina scored the first break from the match to take a 5-3 lead. Svitolina then served for the set and held a 6-3 victory.
Keys made 15 uncomposed mistakes in the opening set, only four for Svitolina. But Keys regained his composure in the second set to even increase the match.
Keys first faced a chance to take control in the second set with three break points in the fourth game in the set. But Svitolina fought to win the match and thwart Keys’ best effort to this point to shoot the match in his favor.
But the keys have capitalized on the next Svitolina service. She had two breaking points and sent a forehand on the right line that Svitolina could not reach in time to mark her first break from the match and take a 4-2 lead. She held a service from there for a 6-3 victory to send the match to a third decisive set.
There, Keys struck the first with a break from Svitolina to take a 3-2 lead. Svitolina did not return the break and the keys kept to secure the match in service.
Keys, 29, is advancing in the semi-final in search of his first Grand Chelem title and his second appearance in the final after a 2017 defeat against Sloane Stephens in the 2017 American finals. This is the third time that She progressed beyond the quarter-finals of Melbourne.
In the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, the seeded n ° 21, Ben Shelton, of the United States, beat Lorenzo Sonego and will play the seeded n ° 1 Jannik Sinner in the semi-finals. (Photo of Mark Avellino / Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Australian 2025 open semi-finals are fixed. Wednesday’s matches finalized the opponents, and there is an American left standing in simple male: 22 years old Ben Shelton.
Shelton, seeded n ° 21, has won an exhausting quarter -final against Cinderella not groped Lorenzo SonegoThe battant 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (4). SONEGO and Shelton were well matched as competitors and each set was strongly disputed, until equality break at the end. And if someone wondered how Sonego, 29, currently classified n ° 55 in the world, reached the first quarter -final of the Grand Chelem of his career, all he had to do was to look. SONEGO had made extraordinary points all over the tournament.
But Wednesday, points like that were not enough for Sonego to exceed Shelton. Shelton has been a talent that simmer slowly in recent years, and now it seems ready to boil and perhaps even to move closer to the ATP ranking.
Jannik sinnerSeed n ° 1 and the title champion of the Aussie Open, had more facilitated against the seeded n ° 8 Alex de Minaur. While the last Australian standing in simple male and female, the crowd was firmly on the side of Minaur, but Sinner still won a 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 victory in less than two hours.
Now Shelton, appearing in his second semi-final of the Grand Chelem in a career and the first Australian open semi-final, will have to face the world n ° 1. And unfortunately, the story is not on its side. Sinner played 14 Americans in the Grand Chelem tournaments and beaten each of them. Although the chances are stacked against him, Shelton will try to obtain a victory in the United States and participate in his very first Grand Slam final.
Then, of course, in the final, Shelton should play Novak Djokovic or Alexander Zverev, who competes in the other semi-final match on Friday.
Earlier Wednesday, the American seeded n ° 12, Madison Keys, reached the semi-finals, where she will face the seeded n ° 2 IGA Swiatek. In the other semi-final, the n ° 1 Aryna Sabalenka will face the No. 11 Paula Badosa.