The top-ranked Djokovic is 8-0 in his previous trips to the final at Melbourne Park. He is also unbeaten in all nine semifinals he has contested in Australia.
The second men’s semifinal features a look at the future of the sport: 22-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas against 25-year-old Daniil Medvedev.
The defeat to Naomi Osaka in semi-final ended her bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title and her second consecutive semi-final exit in a major tournament.
The last year's US Open semi-finalist defeated her Czech rival 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in a hard-fought battle; will face off Naomi Osaka in the final.
The World No. 3 Japanese makes a light work of the 23-time Grand Slam-winning veteran in a one-sided semi-final 6-3, 6-4.
Naomi Osaka has won 19 consecutive matches but none of those wins came against Serena Williams.
It is only the second time in Nadal’s career he has lost a Grand Slam match after taking the opening two sets.
72 Australian Open entrants were forced into a two-week hard quarantine and Brady is the only one who made it all the way to the singles semifinals at Melbourne Park.
Tsitsipas grabbed the third set in a tiebreaker with the help of some uncharacteristic mistakes by Nadal.
Australia’s second-largest city will relax its third lockdown at midnight Wednesday after authorities contained the spread of a COVID-19 cluster centered on hotel quarantine.
Medvedev is into the semifinals of a major for the third time. He will next play either 20-time major winner Rafael Nadal or No. 5-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Barty lost the match 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 as Muchova continued taking down higher-ranked opponents.
Those matches will be played in the grandstand, which seats 5,000, meaning crowds there will be limited to 15% of capacity because of COVID-19 restrictions.
He dropped the opening set against Alexander Zverev, one of the young guys trying to shove aside Djokovic and the rest of the Big Three.
Nadal’s sore back seems to be improving as he heads into the Australian Open quarterfinals with an eye on a men's-record 21st Grand Slam singles title.
Williams claimed the last five games and beat No. 2 seed Simona Halep 6-3, 6-3 in the quarterfinals despite 33 unforced errors
Serena will next face Naomi Osaka in the semis, who defeated HsiehSu-wei 6-2, 6-2 earlier in the day.
Karatsev, a 27-year-old Russian qualifier who is ranked 114th, became the first man in the professional era to reach the semifinals of his first major tennis tournament.
Osaka earned her 19th victory in a row by overpowering Hsieh Su-wei 6-2, 6-2, and will next meet the winner of the quarterfinal between Williams and No. 2-seeded Simona Halep.
Serena Williams goes up against Simona Halep in the quarterfinals — their 12th meeting on tour in a matchup that dates to a decade ago.
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