{"id":2456,"date":"2023-01-24T08:33:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2023-01-24T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:33:10","slug":"djokovic-dominates-australian-open-quarterfinals-as-stars-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2456","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic dominates Australian Open quarterfinals as stars missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-sub-nav c-sub-nav--inline \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content__primary u-divider-bottom@until-medium\">\n<div class=\"article article-news article-news-482985\">\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<p>A number of big name players are missing from the quarterfinals of the Australian Open men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s singles, but one name still stands out like a shining light.<\/p>\n<p>Nine-time winner, Novak Djokovic continues to defy the odds, injury and every opponent as he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/482975\/djokovic-cruises-into-australian-open-quarter-finals\">reached the last eight of the tournament for the 13th time<\/a>, at an event which has become his own.<\/p>\n<p>He despatched local Alex De Minaur showing little mercy and no sign of any injury issues either.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-time Grand Slam winner does have a tough match lined up against Russian fifth seed Andrey Rublev, but it appears no one can stop him romping to another title, especially after last year&#8217;s immigration problems had him effectively kicked out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>And while Djokovic was near perfection there was plenty of drama in other matches. Rublev won his fourth round clash on a net cord in the fifth set over Danish teen Holger Rune.<\/p>\n<p>Unseeded Americans Ben Shelton and J J Wolf blasted the ball at each other for five sets in an entertaining battle for 20-year-old Shelton to make his first quarterfinal in his first tennis trip outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton will face another unseeded American in the form of Tommy Paul as tennis from the US appears to be on a resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>In the other men&#8217;s quarters Russian Karen Kachenov faces Sebastian Korda, whose father won the tournament in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Third seed Stephanos Tsitsipas had to overcome Jannik Sinner in five sets and plays unheralded Jiri Lehecka in his quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of big name players are missing from the quarterfinals of the Australian Open men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s singles, but one name still stands out like a shining light. Nine-time winner, Novak Djokovic continues to defy the odds, injury and every opponent as he\u00a0reached the last eight of the tournament for the 13th time, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}