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Melbourne (AP) - Spanish tennis professional Rafael Nadal is in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the 13th time.
The world number two from Mallorca defeated the number 16 Italian Fabio Fognini after another strong performance 6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 2.
Nadal remains at the first Grand Slam tournament of the year without losing a set.
In the fight for a place in the semi-finals, the 34-year-old meets the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas or Fognini's compatriot Matteo Berrettini in Melbourne.
Nadal is aiming for his 21st title in a Grand Slam tournament.
That would make him the sole record holder ahead of the Swiss Roger Federer.
Alexander Zverev competes in his quarter-finals against defending champion and world number one Novak Djokovic in the night session.
As expected, the match was scheduled by the organizers of the Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne as the last game of the day on Tuesday (around 11.00 a.m. CET / Eurosport) in the Rod Laver Arena, as can be seen from the schedule.
Before that (9 a.m.), Serena Williams from the USA and the number two seeded Romanian Simona Halep face each other in the women's quarter-finals.
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In another quarter-final there will be a Russian tennis duel between the ATP Cup winners Daniil Medvedev and Andrei Rublev.
World number four and ATP finals champion Medvedev won in Melbourne sovereignly against American Mackenzie McDonald 6: 4, 6: 2, 6: 3.
A little later Rublyov benefited from the abandonment of his opponent in the match against the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
Rublev led 6: 2, 7: 6 (7: 3) when Ruud could not continue playing.
At first nothing was known about the reasons.
Since the qualifier Aslan Karazew had progressed the day before, four Russian men are in the quarter-finals for the first time in a Grand Slam tournament.
Karazew gets to do with the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, who had prevailed against the Austrian Dominic Thiem.
For Medvedev it was the 18th win in a row.
At the end of last year he had won the Masters 1000 event in Paris and the ATP Finals in London.
At the beginning of this season he won the ATP Cup together with his compatriot Rublev and won all of his four singles.
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The world number five Jelina Switolina was surprisingly eliminated in the second round.
The 26-year-old tennis player from Ukraine lost 4: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6 against the unseeded American Jessica Pegula in Melbourne.
Pegula is number 61 in the world rankings and is in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career.
There she meets her US colleague Jennifer Brady, who beat Croatian Donna Vekic 6: 1, 7: 5.
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