As it happened Australian Open 2024: ‘When I play aggressive, I can play with anyone’: Teen sensation Noskova confident after knocking top seed Swiatek out of tournament

Iga Swiatek’s woes at the Australian Open continued on Saturday night, with the world No.1 eliminated by a Czech teenager in the star Pole’s earliest exit from Melbourne Park in five years.

The top half of the women’s singles draw has been turned on its head. Only one grand slam champion, Victoria Azarenka, is left and the highest seed is Zheng Qinwen (12).

Battling up-and-down form in the first two rounds at the Open, four-time major winner Swiatek appeared up for the fight as Czech Linda Noskova took the match up to her.

But it turned out not to be.

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Here is a look at today’s key matches:

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Thanks so much for joining us on a big evening as No.1 seed Iga Swiatek was knocked out of the women’s draw and Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev advance in the men’s draw.

We will have more Australian Open coverage overnight and another blog firing up later in the morning.

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Salecia Host knew her son Ty had a future in tennis when he began to rally at age two.

The Australian Open now knows it too, after the 16-year-old unleashed serves of up to 202 km/h to breeze through to the second round of the junior boys’ singles competition.

“He could rally the ball across the net at the age of two,” said Australian-born Salecia, after her son’s 6-3, 6-3 victory in his first grand slam.

“He was born just athletically gifted. He swam very early, he walked very early, he also played soccer for the first 10, 12 years of his life at a very high level.

“It’s just in his blood … and he’s lived it every day since.”

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No.6 seed Alexander Zverev said a pep talk from his dad and coach was the catalyst for a clinical win tonight.

After a long lead-in tournament in Sydney and two exhausting matches in his early rounds at Melbourne Park, his dad told him to keep this match short.

“The tactical talk with my dad, who is my coach, was brilliant,” Zverev said post match.

“Obviously, he told me to hit more winners and make less errors like always but he put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Son, no one wants to watch you play at 3am so please hurry up”.”

Zverev will play Cameron Norrie next round and he has won his last 13 matches against left-handers, he hopes to make it 14 and secure a place in the quarterfinals.

Zverev overcame a very difficult second set to beat Michelsen in a tiebreak.

Zverev won the tiebreak 7-4 after having to fight back from a break down earlier in the set.

Now he is up 6-2, 7-6, 1-0 and the young American has a huge task to come back.

He threw his racquet down in disgust after losing the second set.

Michelsen has gone from looking in big trouble to breaking the serve of Zverev making it 5-4 in the second set.

Zverev is serving to keep the set alive.