History made in Australian Open bloodbath

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Underdogs person continued to wreak havoc astatine the Australian Open connected Sunday, Elena Rybakina and Jelena Ostapenko ousting much fancied opponents astatine Melbourne Park.

The Kazakhstani and Latvian were liable for eliminating the archetypal and seventh seeds successful the women's singles draw, ending the campaigns of arguably the 2 biggest names, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff, to scope the 2nd week successful the 4th round.

It means lone 3 of the apical 10 women's seeds stay live successful the tournament: Jessica Pegula, Caroline Garcia and Aryna Sabalenka.

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No.22 effect Rybakina defeated Swiatek 6-4, 6-4, earlier 17th effect Ostapenko toppled Gauff 7-5, 6-3.

The women's gully had already mislaid Ons Jabeur, Maria Sakkari, Daria Kasatkina, Veronika Kudermetova and Madison Keys.

Shock results person besides rocked the men's singles draw, with conscionable 5 of the apical 10 seeds inactive contesting the archetypal expansive slam of the year.

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Rafael Nadal, Casper Ruud, Andrey Rublev, Daniil Medvedev and Taylor Fritz person each been dumped from the tournament.

It's the archetypal clip successful the unfastened epoch that the apical 2 seeds successful the men's and women's singles draws person been knocked retired anterior to the quarter-finals.

Swiatek, a two-time Roland-Garros champion and the reigning US Open winner, is yet to vie successful an Australian Open final.

The prima from Poland, who carved retired 37 wins successful succession successful 2022, admits she has enactment to bash connected her intelligence crippled as she attempts to rediscover her dominance.

"Well, for definite past 2 weeks person been beauteous hard for me," said Swiatek, who inherited the No.1 ranking erstwhile Ash Barty retired successful March past year.

"So I felt contiguous that I don't person that overmuch to, like, instrumentality from myself to combat adjacent more.

"So I truly privation to ... I felt similar I took a measurement backmost successful presumption of however I attack these tournaments, and I possibly wanted it a small spot excessively hard.

"So I'm going to effort to chill retired a small spot more. That's all."

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When Gauff was asked astir Swiatek and herself some tumbling from the tourney connected Sunday, the 18-year-old said the results didn't "surprise" her.

"I mean, Iga mislaid to Elena, who conscionable won Wimbledon," Gauff said.

"I knew that lucifer would spell either way. I consciousness similar Jelena ... she's idiosyncratic that, you know, tin play truly good, and sometimes there's immoderate things that you conscionable can't do.

"I deliberation contiguous she played truly well.

"I deliberation I was looking astatine the stats, and for the astir portion I was doing beauteous bully astatine the stats, but I mean, she returned truly well, truthful it benignant of, I guess, messed up my bushed a small bit.

"You know, she deed a batch of winners, which not a batch of radical tin bash connected me.

"So I deliberation that she did large job."

Rybakina and Ostapenko volition quadrate disconnected successful a quarter-final connected Tuesday.

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