Australian Open: Augier Aliassime v Medvedev and more – live! | Sport

News from the women’s singles, Danielle Collins enjoyed a 7-5 6-1 win over France’s Alize Cornet, and Iga Swiatek, beat veteran Kaia Kanepi 4-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-3 to set up Thursday’s semi-finals.

Stefanos Tsitsipas has just sped into the quarter-finals, making very short work of Jannick Sinner, to join Nadal, Berretini and the winner of this match, where Medvedev, perhaps the best player left in the tournament is favoured to join them. The Russian, second-seeded, yet actually top-seeded after all that Djokovic woe, has dropped just two sets to get here while the Canadian has dropped four, and beat Marin Cilic in four sets in the last round. Medvedev ended up apologising for his on-court behaviour in beating Maxime Cressy, saying: ““I was quite mad today because of a few things. I’m working on myself, and that’s why I managed to win and still kept my composure, as much as I could, because sometimes I go much more crazier than I did today.”

One of his main gripes was not playing that match on the Rod Laver Court but he gets his wish today. With all that laid out for him can he live up to the expectation?