The tournaments change, the courts differ but seemingly everywhere Hyeon Chung plays these days, the South Korean always brings his “pokerface”. Read More: Chung Keeps His 'Pokerface' in Milan Two months after winning the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan, Chung secured yet another career breakthrough on Wednesday at the Australian Open. The unseeded 21-year-old dismissed Tennys Sandgren of the U.S. 6-4, 7-6(5), 6-3 to extend his greatest run at a Grand Slam, becoming the lowest-ranked man to make the Australian Open semi-finals since No. 86 Marat Safin in 2004. Chung is also the first South Korean, man or woman, to play in a Grand Slam semi-final, and he had his country on his mind during the match's final...
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....
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...
Is there any stopping of Kyle Edmund this Australian Open? The 23-year-old unseeded Brit won his fifth match in a row in Melbourne on Tuesday, upsetting third seed and 2017 semi-finalist Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the Australian Open semi-finals. Edmund, who before this fortnight had only reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam championship (2016 US Open), will now face Marin Cilic for a spot in the Australian Open final. Read Cilic-Nadal Report Edmund became only the sixth British man to reach a Grand Slam semi-final in the Open Era (since April 1968) – Roger Taylor, John Lloyd, Greg Rusedski, Tim Henman and Andy Murray. “Amazing feeling, very happy... it was my first match on...
Hyeon Chung became the first South Korean player in history to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final after beating six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic 7-6(4), 7-5, 7-6(3) at the Australian Open on Monday. Chung, who won the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals last year, let slip 4-0, 4-1 and 3-1 leads in the first, second and third sets respectively before ultimately getting the better of Djokovic, who was playing his first tournament since The 2017 Championships at Wimbledon after struggling with a right elbow injury. Asked to describe what the win over Djokovic meant to him, and his country, Chung shared his emotions. “Novak (Djokovic), Roger (Federer) and Rafa (Nadal) are my role models, my idols. I'm just happy to...
