First came the medical timeouts, one each for Jannik Sinner and Holger Rune with the temperature above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) at the Australian Open.Then came the bizarre sight of a 20-minute delay because the net at Rod Laver Arena detached from the court after being hit by a big Sinner serve.

The likes of Elena Rybakina, Jack Draper, Holger Rune, Learner Tien and Gael Monfils will each earn a prize money of A$420,000 from the Australian Open.

They also have a dead-even head-to-head record. Keys won their first two matches, and Rybakina came back to win the next two, including their only meeting of 2024, on hard courts in Miami. Keys has won eight straight matches in Adelaide and Melbourne, while Rybakina, with new coach Goran Ivanisevic, hasn’t dropped a set this week.

Jannik Sinner will face his trickiest test yet at the Australian Open when the defending champion battles Dane Holger Rune in the fourth round on Monday, while five-times Grand Slam winner Iga Swiatek will be the heavy favourite against lucky loser Eva Lys.

Defending champion Jannik Sinner came through a tough physical battle against Holger Rune to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals .

The Day 9 of the Australian Open 2025 is underway at Melbourne Park as it promises to deliver some fantastic and exciting tennis. Jannik Sinner will battle it out against Holger Rune, while Gael Monfils will take on Ben Shelton.

Monfils upset fourth-seeded Taylor Fritz of the United States 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (1), 6-4 in the third round at Melbourne, Australia. When Monfils made his Australian Open debut in 2005, Fritz, now 27 years old, was 7.

Elina Svitolina has started off proceedings for the day at the Rod Laver Arena against Veronika Kudermetova. Later in the day, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek will also be in action on Centre Court.

Ailing defending champion Jannik Sinner admitted he was fortunate to survive a fourth-round battle with Holger Rune at the Australian Open.

Defending champion Jannik Sinner moved into the Australian Open quarterfinals at Melbourne Park on Monday by eliminating the 13th-seeded Holger Rune 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.

The World No. 1, despite feeling unwell in sweltering conditions, kept up his title defense with a four-set triumph.

First came the medical timeouts, one each for Jannik Sinner and Holger Rune with the temperature above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) at the Australian Open. Then came the unusual sight of a 20-minute delay because the net at Rod Laver Arena detached from the court after being hit by