Marin Cilic competed with absolute focus on Tuesday night to overcome World No. 1 and 2009 champion Rafael Nadal for a place in the Australian Open semi-finals. The sixth-seeded Croatian booked his place in a fifth Grand Slam championship semi-final (2-2 record), where he will meet Great Britain’s Kyle Edmund, after Nadal retired due to an injury in the fifth set. Cilic was leading 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-2, 2-0 after three hours and 47 minutes of play. Nadal, who had been bidding to reach the Australian Open semi-finals for the second successive year, received on-court treatment for a right leg injury at 1-4 in the fourth set. "[It's] really unfortunate for Rafa," Cilic told Jim Courier, in an on-court interview....
Rafael Nadal speaks at his post-match press conference following his retirement in the fifth set of the quarter-finals against Marin Cilic at the 2018 Australian Open. Video courtesy Tennis Australia. Watch more video and live matches at www.ausopen.com.
Japan’s Ben Mclachlan and Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff caused a huge upset to defeat World No.1 team Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 6-4, 6-7(4), 7-6(5) to reach the Australian Open semi-finals on Tuesday. The team, playing together for the first time, edged the top seeds in the two-hour, 51-minute contest, hitting 41 winners to secure their place in the semi-finals. Mclachlan and Struff will meet the winners of Wednesday’s quarter-final as Marcus Daniell and Dominic Inglot face seventh seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic for a place in Saturday’s final. The Japanese-German duo got off to a flying start, breaking Kubot and Melo to love in the opening game of the match and, after trading breaks late in the set, served...
Marin Cilic speaks at his post-match press conference following his quarter-finals victory against Rafael Nadal at the 2018 Australian Open. Video courtesy Tennis Australia. Watch more video and live matches at www.ausopen.com.
Kyle Edmund speaks at his post-match press conference following his quarter-finals victory against Grigor Dimitrov at the 2018 Australian Open. Video courtesy Tennis Australia. Watch more video and live matches at www.ausopen.com.
