Australia Tennis Championship: Djokovic defeats Alcaraz and is the semi -finals and Sebalinka continues the dream of the trilogy

– Serbian Novak Djokovic, seventh world, continued his brilliance and the oppression of Spanish Carlos Alcaraz III after he was late and won 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4, today, Tuesday, in the Australian Open, the first major slam, to reach the semi-finals with the Belarusian Arena. Sapalinka, the first for women, who continued her dream of the third title in a row.

Djokovic, 37, reminded the fans with his time at the Rod Laver Arena Stadium, the theater of his greatest achievement, as he seeks to achieve his eleventh title in Melbourne and the standard 25 in the major championships.

The Serbian renewed his victory over Alcaraz, 21, who failed for the fourth time to qualify for the semi -finals, within three hours and 37 minutes, achieving his fifth victory over his opponent in eight confrontations, including his victory in the last confrontation that brought them together in the Paris Olympics final.

After arriving in the semi -finals for the twelfth time in Melbourne and the fifty in the major championships, he said (four times a difference of Swiss Roger Federer), that he “wished this final match,” praising the “wonderful person” Alcaraz who played against him ”one of him The best matches you played on this stadium are actually on any stadium. ”

Djokovic began the confrontation 2-0 after the second half was seized to send his opponent, but the latter responded in the next half and realized the tie 2-2 and then 3-3 and 4-4 before creating the difference in the ninth half that he extracted from the Serbian, up to the setting of the group To send it 6-4.

The same scenario was repeated in the second group, where Djokovic advanced 2-0 and then 3-0, but he lost his sending in the fifth half, which opened the way for Alcaraz to return and equalize 3-3 and 4-4 before the Serbian decided in the tenth half to send the Spaniard, ending the group 6-4.

As in the first two groups, Djokovic submitted a breaking of his third rival, but he lost his fourth sending, and quickly remedied by winning in the eighth half for sending the fourth Alcaraz and then his fifth transmission, decisive 6-3.

The Serbian did it again, and this time he won in the first half of the fourth group to send Alcaraz who fought and tried to break Djokovic’s third transmission to no avail, to be late 2-4 before winning the next send with difficulty amid great encouragement from the audience (3-4).

But Djokovic continued his brilliance despite the enthusiasm of the Spanish young man who pledged to put a migrant tattoo in the event of crowning the title, and settling group 6-4.

Djokovic will play with German Alexander Zverev II, who defeated the American Tommy Paul 7 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-0), 2-6, 6-1.

Zverev for the second time in succession

Zverev, 27, qualified for the role of the four for the second time in a row after he suffered to resolve the first and second groups, where he needed a break in both in both of them on a hot day and a storm, then he collapsed in the third and lost 2-6 before he regained his strength at the fourth and resolved it easily 6-1.

It is the third time that Zverev has reached the semi -finals in Melbourne after the first in 2020 when he lost to Austrian Dominique Tim, and the second last year when he fell to Russian Daniel Medvedev with five groups after winning the first two groups.

The best result in Grand remains his arrival to the Flashing Midoz 2020 Final and Roland Garros 2024 when he lost in front of Tim and Alcaraz in a row.

“Frankly, I could have delayed two clean sets, I was not playing wonderfully, and I thought it was so … but I some way won the first group, In some way, I won the second .. The fourth group was definitely the best that I played and it is clear that I am very happy to return to the semi -finals. ”

Badosa topples a hollow

Upon the women, Sabalinka continued her career successfully towards the third successive title in the championship, when she was difficult for Russian Anastasia Pavluchankova 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.

26-year-old Sabalinka hit a semi-final date with Spaniard Paula Badosa, who toppled American Coco Gov, the third when she defeated 7-5, 6-4.

Sabalinka met Badosa seven times so far, as the Belarus has won five times while the Spanish, who will play her first semi -finals in the Grand Slam tournaments tomorrow, Thursday, twice.

It is the nineteenth victory for Seblinka in Melbourne Park, and it became only two wins from the crowning of the third title in a row in Melbourne, an achievement that has not been achieved since 1999 when Swiss Martina Hingiz did (1997, 1998 and 1999).

“Frankly, I was only praying, and I was trying to return the ball into these difficult circumstances,” said Sabalinka, adding, “The game was difficult … I am very happy because I somehow managed to win this match in a magical way.”

In the second, and after she was about to retire last year due to a chronic back injury, Padosa defeated Ghove, the third in the world and Flashing Midoz 2023, with two sets 7-5 6-4 and reached the semi-finals in Grand Salam for the first time in her career.

Badosa needed an hour and 42 minutes to achieve her achievement and fell to the ground after the end of the match to celebrate it.

Badosa has become the first Spanish up to the semi -finals in Grand Salam since Garbini Mugorosa, also in Melbourne, in 2020.

The qualification to the semi -finals is a great return to the 12th worldwide to the yellow football stadiums after it was outside the list of the best 100 players a year after suffering a strained fracture in her back.