Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz will be a part of 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic within the Olympic males’s singles quarter-finals.
However Alcaraz and 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal have been crushed within the males’s doubles by USA’s Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram – dropping 6-2 6-4.
Reigning French Open champion Alcaraz defeated Russian Roman Safiullin, who’s competing as an Particular person Impartial Athlete, 6-4 6-2.
Earlier, Djokovic beat Germany’s Dominik Koepfer 7-5 6-3 in very humid circumstances, because the Serb continues his quest for the Olympic males’s singles gold that has to date eluded him.
“I am soaking moist, actually,” Djokovic mentioned moments after his win. “It is a very, humid day [and] I simply hope it rains so it cools down the temperature a bit and the air.
“However it’s what it’s. It’s a must to form of settle for and embrace the circumstances and it is the identical for you and your opponents, so you must attempt to make the most effective out of it.”
French Open finalist Alexander Zverev overcame a spirited begin by Australia’s Alexei Popyrin, to succeed in the final eight.
The remainder of the quarter-final line-up consists of Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas, Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti, Norway’s Casper Ruud and the USA’s Tommy Paul.
French Open girls’s champion Iga Swiatek went by means of – having been examined in her quarter-final, she was main 6-1 2-6 4-1 when after the USA’s Danielle Collins retired within the deciding set.
Germany’s three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber’s profession lastly got here to an finish, after dropping to China’s Zhang Qinwen 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 7-6 (8-6).
“I’ve achieved every part I dreamed of,” Kerber mentioned, in her finest results of the season.
“I used to be primary, received Grand Slams, received a [silver] medal in Rio, so what extra may you need in the long run?”
Kerber triumphed on the 2016 Australian and US Opens earlier than claiming the Wimbledon title two years later.