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Australian Open 2025 Day 10 HIGHLIGHTS: Djokovic beat Alcaraz in Q/F; Sabalenka through to S/F

Coco Gauff suffers a shocking upset in women's singles at the hands of Paula Badosa, while Zverev moves on to the semifinals of the men's singles event

Aditya Kaushik New Delhi

AUS Open 2025

The 2025 Australian Open hosted first set of quarterfinal games on Tuesday, January 21, across all events. The day fearured some high profile matches as Aryana Sabalenka continued her dream run in woemn's singles division to keep her title defence alive, while in men's single Novak Djokovic beat Carlos Alcaraz to qualify for the semifinals.

Men's singles

The men's singles quarterfinals starts with second seeded Alexander Zverev beating 12th seeded Tommy Paul 7-6, 7-6, 2-6 and 6-1 to become the first semifinalist of men's singles event in Australian Open 2025. The night session delivered the most anticipated match of the tournament, with Novak Djokovic beating Carlos Alcaraz in a 4 set thriller by 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 and 6-4 to keep his dream of 25th Grand Slam title up and running.

Women's singles

In a surprising turn of event in women's singles quarterfinals, as number three seeded Coco Gauff of America suffred a huge upset against number 11 seeded Paula Badosa of Spain who won the match by 7-5, 6-4 in straight sets to book her place in the semifinals. The night session featured world number one Aryna Sabalenka who took on 27th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the second quarterfinal. Sabalenka took early leadd iin the match as she won the first set by 6-2, but Pavlyuchenkova came back strong to win second set by 6-2 herself. However, Sabalenka came back strong in the thrid set and won by 6-3 to book her place in the semifinals.

Men's doubles

The men’s doubles quarterfinals today promised exciting matchups at Kia Arena., as seeded third, Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori beat t Nuno Borges and Francisco Cabral in straight sets of 6-4 and 7-6 to book thier place in the semifinals. In another matchup, top seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic suffred another upsset of the day as Andre Goransson and Sem Verbeek won the match in three set contest by 6-4,4-6 and 6-3.

Women's doubles

Women’s doubles aactions also had thrilling encounters at Margaret Court Arena, as Miyu Kato and Renata Zarazua lost against second seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe in straight sets of 6-3 and 6-2. While in the second quarterfinals Marta Kostyuk and Elena-Gabriela Ruse lost to third-seeded duo of Su-Wei Hsieh and Jelena Ostapenko, as the latter won the game by 6-2,5-7 and 7-5.

Mixed doubles

The mixed doubles quarterfinals at Margaret Court Arena, Asia Muhammad and Andrés Molteni (seeded 8th) lost to second seeds Erin Routliffe and Michael Venus by 7-6,1-6 and 5-10, while Ellen Perez and Kevin Krawietz went down against wildcard pair of Kimberly Birrell and John-Patrick Smith by 2-6,6-3 and 10-6. Meanwhile, at Kia Arena, Olivia Nicholls and Henry Patten beat Irina Khromacheva and Jackson Withrow in straight sets of 6-2,6-2, while China's Shuai Zhang and India's Rohan Bopanna suffred a huge loss as the wildcard pair of Olivia Gadecki and John Peers beat them 2-6, 6-4 and 11-9 to qualify for the semifinals.

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AUS Open 2025 LIVE UPDATES: Day 10 comes to an end

That was all from day 10 actions of Australian Open 2025. Join us back tomorrow for seceond set of quarterfinal matches from Melbourne Australia. Till then take care.

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AUS Open 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: Djokovic qualifies for the semifinals

Novak Djokovic beats Carlos Alcaraz in a hard fought quarterfinal game to confirm his place in the semifinals and keep his 25th grand slam title dream alive.

Set 4: Djokovic 6-4 Alcaraz

Set 3: Djokovic 6-3 Alcaraz

Set 2: Djokovic 6-4 Alcaraz