The fourth day of the 2025 Australian Open noticed World No. 1 Jannik Sinner and No. 4 Taylor Fritz coast into the third spherical. On the ladies’s facet, No. 2 Iga Swiatek and No. 4 Jasmine Paolini confronted little resistance of their second-round matches.
However the day wasn’t devoid of some huge upsets.
Fifth-seeded Daniil Medvedev
The three-time Australian Open finalist bumped into American teenager Learner Tien, who overcame a five-set marathon that went right into a deep tiebreaker within the deciding set. Finally, the 19-year-old had extra gasoline within the tank after 4 hours and 49 minutes amid a vigorous Melbourne crowd. The tiebreaker led to an anti-climatic vogue as Medvedev made back-to-back unforced errors to offer Lien the 10-7 win. The Russian had jumped out to a 6-4 lead earlier than Tien confirmed large poise to attract degree with a number of returning winners. Tien has been on a roll just lately, reaching the finals of the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals and making deep runs in Challenger occasions. He’ll subsequent face Frenchman Corentin Moutet within the third spherical. As for Medvedev, the outcome marks a disappointing begin to the 12 months after he reached the finals at two majors final 12 months — Wimbledon and Australian Open.
Seventeenth-seeded Frances Tiafoe
A fan-favorite in Melbourne for years, Tiafoe had the gang behind him in opposition to unseeded Hungarian Fabian Marozsan. However the crowd help did not appear to matter as Marozsan had a solution for the whole lot Tiafoe dished at him. Even because the American went up two units to at least one, it by no means felt like Marozsan was out of the competition as he saved firing laser winners from all angles. The Hungarian had a closing 63-48 benefit on winners and a whopping 7-1 on return winners. He used Tiafoe’s fast serve to his profit along with his baseline-oriented expertise. Marozsan will subsequent face veteran Italian Lorenzo Sonego within the third spherical. Tiafoe must attempt to regroup after a collection of poor outcomes since his semifinal end eventually 12 months’s U.S. Open.
18th-seeded Hubert Hurkacz
After reaching the quarterfinal eventually 12 months’s Australian Open, Hurkacz has now suffered early exits in 4 consecutive majors. In a surprising consequence, he crashed out in straight units, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2, to unseeded Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic within the second spherical. It was a reasonably stunning consequence because the Pole was recent off a finals look on the United Cup along with his nation and was tipped as one of many darkish horses to make a deep run in Melbourne. Moreover, he just lately added the legendary Ivan Lendl to his teaching group. It must be a tricky capsule for the Pole and his group. For Kecmanovic, it is the most important win of his profession since he reached the fourth spherical of the 2022 Australian Open.
So, who’s on upset alert on Day 5? No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz cannot take Nuno Borges flippantly given the latter’s latest kind. On the ladies’s facet, No. 7 Jessica Pegula will probably be pushed to her restrict by rising Serb Olga Danilovic. (We predicted
Medvedev’s upset by Lien).
