Australian Open 2022, day eight: De Minaur and Medvedev in round of 16 action, live! | Sport

Meanwhile, the two men’s fourth-round players have gone to tiebreaks for the second set. Cressy nearly broke Medvedev to take it 7-5, but the Russian held on.

Perhaps the switch has been flipped again? Cornet plays a stormy game to hold her serve at two and level the set up again at 2-2. Impressive. Still nowhere near that though when Halep serves, she just can’t get into the points, Halep dictates the placement until Cornet makes mistakes.

It certainly looks like this from the comfort of home. Cornet manages to hold serve after a battle, but has started missing shots in odd ways, muttering in anguish between points, double faulting to waste a game point, and having to fight hard to get it back. The heat must be very exhausting.

From an Australian perspective, the whole world is waiting Alex de Minaurthe match against the italian jannik sinner. They should be at Rod Laver Arena after Halep and Cornet, so it will be another waiting series for the hometown boy.

Halep wins the second set again 6-3. So she and Cornet will come to a decision.

and the Croatian Marin Cilic he won his first set by the same margin over Felix Auger-Aliassime, with the Canadian taking it to 4-4 in the second set so far. All active matches are fourth round.

Meanwhile, the two male seeds Daniel Medvedev is hitting maxim cressy in his fourth round, service games in the second set after a 6-2 thrashing in the first.

What’s happening live? Well, there’s a second ding-dong set going between the former Romanian number one Simona Halep and french fridge alize cornet. The unseeded Cornet has broken and led Halep at various points in the set, but has ultimately been pushed out of her comfort zone, falling at 4-3.