Lucas Pouille News
French tennis player Lucas Pouille is all set to miss the Australian Open warm-up tournament, the ASB Classic, as well as the first major of the season due to an elbow injury.
Djokovic will now lock horns with third seed David Goffin for a place in the summit showdown of the tournament.
Djokovic will now lock horns with fifth-seed Lucas Pouille of France for a place in the semi-final of the ongoing tournament.
Attacking the lines with machine-like precision, Djokovic broke the 28th-seeded Frenchman seven times yet never looked in danger of conceding a break point.
Pouille continued his remarkable run at Melbourne Park by stunning in-form Canadian Milos Raonic to set up a showdown with top-seeded Novak Djokovic for a place in Sunday's final.
Nishikori overcame Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta in his third five-setter in four rounds on Monday and has spent nearly 14 hours on court at Melbourne, more than any other player.
Six-times champion Djokovic will meet Frenchman Lucas Pouille, on Friday for a place in Sunday's final.
Zverev has emerged as one of the brightest stars in men's tennis after victories over Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic en route to an ATP Finals triumph in November, but the 21-year-old German remains unable to find his best form at Grand Slams.
The 29-year old Spaniard, ranked 23rd in the world, dominated the match on Saturday, which lasted 1 hour 21 minutes on the DDF centre court.
"It's special to win here, I've been working hard," the champion said.
Second seed Pouille served seven aces and converted three break points to prevail in an hour and 39 minutes.
Russian Karen Khachanov outplayed Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3 6-2 to reach the Marseille Open final on Saturday, setting up a title showdown with Frenchman Lucas Pouille.
Belgian ace Goffin levelled the final at 2-2 after beating Tsonga in straight sets in Sunday's opening reverse singles but a revitalised Pouille throttled Darcis 6-3, 6-1, 6-0 in Sunday's decisive fifth rubber.
David Goffin had mercilessly swept aside close friend Lucas Pouille to give outsiders Belgium the first point at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
Pouille was the biggest mover in the latest rankings released on Monday with the Frenchman up seven places into 18th after his 6-1, 6-4 defeat of compatriot Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Sunday’s final in Austria.
The world number one, who was beaten by Pouille the last time they met at the 2016 U.S. Open, lost a close first set before saving two match points in a second-set tiebreak to level things up.
In the absence of Djokovic, who ended his season prematurely because of an elbow injury, world number 80 Lajovic is Serbia`s best-ranked player.
The two-time Wimbledon winner withdrew from facing Lucas Pouille on Tuesday due to his sore hip, then opted not to take part in his scheduled practice session on Wednesday.
The Spaniard, who saved seven of nine break points, had come to the principality with only three previous victories from 29 matches against top 10 opponents.
Five-time winners Spain are without Rafael Nadal after the 14-time Grand Slam champion opted to stay at home to prepare for the clay-court season.
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