The world's best tennis player Arina Sabalenko is in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, after defeating talented Canadian Victoria Emboko in straight sets - 6:1, 7:6.
The Belarusian won the second set in a tie-break and broke Novak Djokovic's record for the number of consecutive deciding games won.
Arina has not lost a tiebreak at a Grand Slam since 2023, 20 in total. She has reached at least eight consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinals on hard court, the first time since Lindsey Davenport in 2001.
And in the quarterfinals, she will face the youngest quarterfinalist, Iva Jović. The American of Serbian emigrants demonstrated her strength over the Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, dropping a single game to her and winning the match in just 53 minutes - 6:0, 6:1.
Iva became the youngest tennis player to open the first set of a round of 16 of a Grand Slam tournament with a 6:0 lead, since Martina Hingis in 1998 in Melbourne.
She is also the youngest player to reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open without losing a set since Venus Williams in 1998. She is also the youngest player to open the year with three consecutive quarterfinals (Auckland, Hobart, Melbourne) since Maria Sharapova in 2005.
The first male skeleton player, Carlos Alcaraz, celebrated against American Tommy Paul - 7:6, 6:4, 7:5, after two hours and 37 minutes of play.
It was the eighth match between the two players, Alkaras' sixth win, fifth in a row.
His next rival will be the better of the duel Aleksandar Bublik - Alex de Minor.
Carlitos entered the match against Polo poorly and was immediately broken. He returned it in the eighth game. After the first set, everything was easier for the Spaniard. He defended his best result in Melbourne - the quarterfinals and his total is 14.
This puts him ahead of Bjorn Borg and Boris Becker, who reached 13 quarter-finals before their 23rd birthday. Alcaraz also surpassed Rafa Nadal. Carlos has an 80,4% win rate in duels against seeded players at Grand Slams. Rafa remained at 80,1%.
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