Alexander Zverev, Ugo Humbert, and Tommy Paul are coming off stellar 2024 campaigns and now discover themselves within the Australian Open fourth spherical. A resurgent Alejandro Davidovich Fokina will even attempt to preserve his miracle run going.
(14) Ugo Humbert vs. (2) Alexander Zverev
It is going to be a rematch of the latest Paris Masters closing when Zverev and Humbert meet once more in spherical 4 of the Australian Open on Sunday. Zverev rolled 6-2, 6-2 for the title, taking a 2-1 lead within the head-to-head sequence. Fortuitously for Humbert, their different two encounters have been a lot completely different tales. The French left-hander prevailed 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-3 on the grass courts of Halle in 2021 earlier than shedding a 6-4, 6-7(3), 7-6(5) thriller on the Paris Masters in 2023. That’s proper; the participant with home-court benefit has misplaced all three of their matchups.
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. (12) Tommy PaulDavidovich Fokina’s run to the Aussie Open fourth spherical was onerous to consider, and never simply due to his disappointing kind going into the event. The 66th-ranked Spaniard beat Felix Auger-Aliassime within the longest match of the occasion up to now (4 hours and 51 minutes) from two units down after which staged one other two-set comeback–whereas additionally saving a pair of match factors–to stun Jakub Mensik 3-6, 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-4, 6-2 in 30 hours and half-hour on Friday night.
