Stefanos Tsitsipas 3-0 Jiri Lehecka (6-3, 7-6, 6-4)
Karen khachanov 3-0 Sebastian Korda (7-6, 6-3, 3-0)
In the quarterfinals, the No. 3 seed of the Stefanos Tsitsipas only had to meet the player who was not ranked Jiri Lehecka. The Czech Athlete had previously won both the seeds No. 11 Cameron Norrie and the 6th seed Félix Auger -anssime in the previous round, so it was also considered a potential opponent.
However, it seems that the 21 -year -old tennis player was exhausted after 9 intense sets against the two opponents mentioned above, so he quickly lost to Tsitsipas in Set 1. The person ranked 4 in the world only need to win only 1 break in the 2 game to win this set, even if it takes 15 times to serve to get points.
In Set 2, Jiri Lehecka overwhelmed the opponent, but Tsitsipas saved up to 5 situations that could lose the break, pull the set back to game 13. Soon after, Tsitsipas won 2 mini-breaks to win easily 7-2 in the last game. Tsitsipas continued to save 3 breaks at Set 3 to win with a score of 6-4. The whole match, he only won 2 breaks to be able to win, and save 8 breaks from the opponent.
In the other match, Karen Khachanov surpassed Sebastian Korda thanks to the opponent to give up. He needs a series of tie-breaks to take the lead in the first set, before winning 2 breaks to win set 2. Go to set 3, when the score is 3-0 (Khachanov had 1 break), Kora could not continue playing for injury.
Thus, Tsitsipas and Khachanov will meet in the semi -finals of Australia expanded 2023. Last year, Tsitsipas stopped in the semi -final against Daniil Medvedev, while Karen Khachanov pointed to the third round. He lost to the Rafael Nadal champion.
