Kyle Edmund stuns Grigor Dimitrov to reach Australian Open semi-finals

The 16-time major victor draped an arm around his Argentine friend and patted him on top of the head.

Nadal limped into a news conference about a half-hour later, still wincing when he stepped up onto a platform.

Both players withstood pressure from the other early on in a cat-and-mouse third set. Today was just one of those days that I just couldn’t find a way.

“It’s really tough to accept”. “Very high level”, Cilic said.

You can stream the match through Eurosport Player, which is available for £6.99 for a month’s pass or £29.99 for an annual pass. But I don’t want to lie.

“Really I can go out there and do my best. I had my 300th career win at U.S. Open 2014. and I hope I can continue to win three more here”, Cilic, who lifted the 2014 U.S. Open title, said in an on-court interview.

Spain’s Rafael Nadal receives medical attention during their men’s singles quarter-finals match against Croatia’s Marin Cilic on day nine of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 23, 2018.

Nadal was leading 2-1 at the point he called the doctors on, but with Cilic 4-1 up in the set and gaining momentum.

He now spends most of his time in the Bahamas. When he dropped serve in the first and the fourth sets, there was no panic, no hint of being thrown off course.

“Everything we talked about before the match, he did from the first point”. “He’s such an unbelievable competitor”. He’s already notched five-set wins over U.S. Open finalist Kevin Anderson in the first round here and Nikoloz Basilashvili in the third.

“I remember by chance watching his match against Jack Sock in Paris [in November 2017] on the outside court when he led 4-0 in the third”.

Cilic, who lost to Roger Federer in last year’s Wimbledon final, has been serving impressively with a total of 96 aces and a fastest serve clocked at 215km/h. Her older sister, Venus Williams, was beaten in the first round.

Chung ground down six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic in straight sets on Monday with a sensational display of counter-punching tennis reminiscent of the Serb at his best.

The two men are scheduled to meet on the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Thursday at 8.30am (GMT). “He (Seppi) was hitting the ball very clean”, Edmund said in an on-court interview.

World No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki turned on the style in her match to take another step towards a maiden Grand Slam title.

It doesn’t take much when you’re as good as Kyle for things to start clicking together and for me it was not a massive shock.. Though he double-faulted to go down 15-30, a big serve and a 13th ace gave him match point, which he won when Dimitrov overcooked a backhand long.

They say you can take the man out of Yorkshire but cannot take Yorkshire out of the man and while Kyle Edmund now lives in the Bahamas his no-nonsense style of tennis would have the locals back home nodding in approval. It was out. So was Dimitrov, who lost a five-set semifinal here a year ago to Nadal. “He deserved to win, simple as that”, Dimitrov said.

“It’s hard to hide the disappointment. It hurts, and so it should”.

Zverev was trailing Chung 2-6, 1-4 on the first day when he retired. “I know what it feels like to be Andy Murray for the last eight years or so”, he wryly observed.