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MELBOURNE, Australia – One American is guaranteed to be in the Australian Open semifinals.

Because whether Tommy Paul or Ben Shelton wins their quarterfinal match, it’s all good. It ended up being the older, slightly more experienced Paul.

They might have been joined by another in Sebastian Korda. But Korda’s wrist led to the first retirement/walkover of the tournament.

Indeed, the last time a Grand Slam tournament got to the quarterfinal stages without a retirement/walkover was the … 1993 French Open (per the Jeu, Set et Maths Twitter account).

As for Djokovic vs Rublev … if Djokovic moves as well as he did against Alex de Minaur, it’ll be game over for the Russian.

He did.

Melbourne is 16 hours ahead of Eastern time.

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AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Dates: Jan 16 – 29, 2023
Draw size: S128 / D64 / XD32

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023
Final results

Singles, women’s quarterfinals

Magda Linette (POL) def [30] Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 63 75

[5] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def. Donna Vekic (CRO) 63 63

Singles, men’s quarterfinals

Tommy Paul (USA) def. Ben Shelton (USA) 76 (6) 63 57 64

[4] Novak Djokovic (SRB) def [5] Andrey Rublev (RUS) 61 62 64

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