Alex De Minaur, Taylor Fritz and Elena Rybakina reached the 3rd round of the Australian Open 2025 with straight set wins on Thursday, January 16. De Minaur saw off Tristan Boyer to make it to the next round in Melbourne.

As much as any top player, Sinner has been able to expose De Minaur’s lack of first-strike weaponry. The Aussie’s strength is his scrambling and counterpunching, but Sinner serves too well, hits too hard, places the ball too precisely for his defense to be effective. De Minaur hasn’t found a way to hurt, rattle, of disrupt him.

Emma Raducanu suffered her worst ever loss at a Grand Slam at the hands of Iga Swiatek. The five-time Major winner thrashed Raducanu 6-1 6-0 in just 70 minutes. But Raducanu defended herself, claiming the scoreline was "harsh".

No. 19 seed Madison Keys scored the big upset on Day 9 of the Australian Open, defeating No. 6 Elena Rybakina 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 at Margaret Court Arena to advance to the tournament quarterfinals.

US qualifier Learner Tien stunned No.5 seed Daniil Medvedev beating him in five sets while Danielle Collins made an enemy of the crowd and the Special Ks, who retired hurt.

At the same time, De Minaur saw off Dutch star Botic van de ... out at the first round of the women's singles by No 6 seed Elena Rybakina in straight sets on the Margaret Court Arena this afternoon.

Swiatek, Svitolina, Keys, Sonego and Shelton also make it through to the last-eight stage on a hot day in Melbourne.

Elsewhere, sixth seed Elena Rybakina has dominated the first set 6-0 against American wildcard Iva Jovic. Big cheers for Alex de Minaur as he steps out onto Rod Laver Arena for his second-round ...

De Minaur, 25, secured a valuable top-eight ... in her first senior grand slam after being drawn to face No.6 seed Elena Rybakina. Teenage star Emerson Jones could’ve hardly received a tougher ...

Alex de Minaur won his first round match in straight ... Daniil Medvedev, Jasmin Paolini and Elena Rybakina. But ninth seed Andrey Rublev fell to exciting Brazilian 18-year-old João Fonseca ...

Alex de Minaur takes centre stage as generation ... Emerson Jones begins her grand slam career against sixth seed Elena Rybakina, and her esteemed former coach believes the 16-year-old Gold ...

Australian Open quarterfinals are set. Four more men and women booked their spots in the final eight on Monday, including three seeded