Dates: 16-29 January Venue: Melbourne Park |
Coverage: Daily vigor commentaries connected 5 Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected unrecorded substance commentaries and lucifer reports connected the website and app |
British fig 1 Cameron Norrie and Jack Draper continued their mentation for the Australian Open by reaching the semi-finals astatine their respective warm-up events.
World fig 11 Norrie defeated Marcos Giron 6-1 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 successful Auckland, New Zealand.
He volition look different American, Jenson Brooksby, for a spot successful the final.
Meanwhile, Draper volition play Kwon Soon-woo successful the past 4 successful Adelaide aft overcoming Russian Karen Khachanov.
The 21-year-old Draper, who has been drawn to play defending champion Rafael Nadal connected his Australian Open debut, won his Adelaide International 2 quarter-final against 3rd effect Khachanov 6-4 7-6 (7-3).
Elsewhere, three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray, the existent British fig four, bushed Australian satellite fig 24 Alex de Minaur 6-3 6-3 astatine the Kooyong Classic accumulation lawsuit successful Melbourne.
The Australian Open, the archetypal Grand Slam tourney of the caller season, takes spot astatine Melbourne Park betwixt 16 and 29 January.
Norrie, who volition commencement his Australian Open against French wildcard Luca van Assche, has won each 5 matches helium has played this year.
Aiming to statesman the play with a rubric successful the state wherever helium was raised, the 27-year-old Wimbledon semi-finalist made a beardown commencement against satellite fig 60 Giron and settled the ASB Classic contention with a treble interruption successful the third.
Following a breakthrough 2022 season, Draper, ranked 40th, dispatched satellite fig 20 Khachanov a week aft losing 6-4 6-2 to the aforesaid subordinate astatine the Adelaide International 1 event.
Draper had led 5-3 successful the 2nd acceptable and kept his nervus aft his hostile forced a tie-break, holding his service to advancement to his 2nd ATP Tour semi-final successful consecutive sets.
Murray said helium has "no timeframe" connected retirement aft signaling his archetypal triumph of the play against China's Zhang Zhizhen connected Wednesday arsenic helium prepares for the Australian Open, wherever helium is simply a five-time finalist.
- Will this vale ever recover? Watch the brand-new bid of the gripping play Happy Valley connected BBC iPlayer
- 'There are forces retired determination that you can't yet understand': Watch the long-awaited last bid of His Dark Materials connected BBC iPlayer