{"id":1604,"date":"2025-01-19T21:57:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2025-01-19T21:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:57:37","slug":"australian-open-day-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/2025\/01\/19\/australian-open-day-8-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open – Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Round 4 and the start of week 2 at the first grand slam of the year. A good day for the seeded players today and if you were wanting an upset then day 8 was not the day you wanted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ladies kicked us off on day 8 so I will start with the ladies today and Sabalenka continues her unbeaten run of hard court as she rocketed past Andreeva, dropping just 3 games to book her spot in the quarter-finals. Her opponent in the quarters will be 27th seed, Pavlyuchenkova who beat the 18th seed today, Vekic. The first set was tight as Pavlyuchenkova won it in a tiebreak but then once she got the opener she didn’t drop another game on her way to the quarter-finals. 3rd seed, Gauff dropped her first set of 2025. The American had to come back from a set down against unseeded Swiss, Bencic but she managed to do it dropping just 3 games after dropping the opening set. Her opponent is 11th seed, Badosa who has finally find some form again. The Spanish star beating unseeded Danilovic 6-1; 7-6(2) to book her spot in the quarter-finals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the mens side, Tommy Paul continues his run at this years Aussie Open as he cruised past Davidovich Fokina 6-1; 6-1; 6-1 making him the best pick on day 8 with 12 points scored and the best pick overall now as well with 36 points scored at this years Aussie Open. His opponent in the quarter-finals is 2nd seed, Zverev who was the only man to drop a set in the 4th round. Zverev beating 14th seed, Humbert 6-1; 2-6; 6-3; 6-2 to book his spot in the quarter-finals. 3rd seed, Alcaraz continues his rich vain of form as he beat Draper. Draper however was hampered by injury after playing 3, 5 set matches in a row at this years Aussie Open. Alcaraz winning that 7-5; 6-1 ret. He sets up a mouth watering quarter-final against 7th seed, Djokovic. Djokovic coming through against in form 24th seed, Lehecka, 6-3; 6-4; 7-6(4). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onto the leaderboard and we have a new leader…’Miss Hits’ comes fighting back on day 8 and now leads by 1 point over previous leader ‘Wallabie Wannebes’. 2 points further back and definitely still in the fight is ‘Kick My Ace’ in 3rd. ‘Heksie’s Pot Luck’ drops down into 4th but is just 5 points off the lead. Then there is a tie for 5th between ‘Faulty Feet’ and ‘Vegemite Sandwich’. Still all to play for at the top. Finally 41st spot is occupied by just 1 team and that team is ‘Racket Scientists’ who moved up 22 spots to reach 41st. ‘Downward Dogs’ had a wretched day on day 8 moving down 14 spots but what will brighten their day is the fact they sit in 69th spot and a spot prize position. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Round 4 and the start of week 2 at the first grand slam of the year. A good day for the seeded players today and if you were wanting an upset then day 8 was not the day you wanted. The ladies kicked us off on day 8 so I will start with the ladies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australian-open-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/jftl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}