Novak Djokovic set up a mouth-watering Australian Open quarter-final against Carlos Alcaraz with a convincing victory over Jiri Lehecka.
"The kind of matches that I played against him remind me of my match-ups versus Nadal in terms of the intensity and the energy on the court."
On the hottest day of the tournament so far with temperatures hitting 34 degrees Celsius , Alcaraz went through when Britain’s Jack Draper retired injured. The 21-year-old Spaniard, who has never gone beyond the quarter-finals in Melbourne, was leading 7-5, 6-1 when Draper pulled the plug. American 12th seed Tommy Paul destroyed Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina for the loss of just three games as he bids to match or better his semi-final appearance from 2023.
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