Novak Djokovic has never lost a final or semi-final at the Australian Open and hasn’t lost in the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park since 2014. But world No.5 Andrey Rublev is hoping to stop his charge for a tenth title.
History suggests that if Novak Djokovic can overcome Russian world No. 5 Andrey Rublev in the quarter-final on Wednesday, he will almost certainly take home his 10thThe 35-year-old Serb has never lost a final or semi-final at Melbourne Park, and hasn’t lost in the final eight for nearly a decade.
After brutalising local hope Alex de Minaur 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 in the fourth round on Tuesday night, Djokovic’s win-loss record at the Australian Open now stands at 86-8. More recently, his only defeats have come in the first week of the Australian Open. He lost to Denis Istomin in the second round in 2017 and in the fourth round the next year to Hyeon Chung, a South Korean bolter who reached the semi-final, a feat he has never matched since., who recently enlisted the coaching help of Mark Philippoussis, took the first two sets from him in the 2021 French Open before losing.
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