Denis Shapovalov stuns Alexander Zverev to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals for the first time in his career

Denis Shapovalov has knocked Alexander Zverev out of the Australian Open in straight sets, beating the German 6-3 7-6(5) 6-3. Zverev never really got going against his Canadian opponent who is into his first Australian Open quarter-final after winning in two hours and 24 minutes. Ad/> The No 14 seed, who reached the Wimbledon semi-finals last year, will face 2009 Australian Open champion Rafael Nadal in the last eight.

Australian Open‘I’ll probably get drunk! That's very popular!’ — Zverev takes jokey dig at crowd after Albot winYESTERDAY AT 08:53 Shapovalov broke the Zverev serve in the fourth game of the opening set before reeling off his remaining service games to take a surprise lead. The Olympic gold medallist was playing passively and Shapovalov forced him back. With the momentum fully with the Canadian, Shapovalov broke Zverev in the opening game of the second set.

Zverev showed some fight to get the set back on serve at 2-2 before going ahead at 5-3, but Shapovalov rallied to get back on serve and forced a tie-break which he won on his second set point. Zverev mentally checked out at the beginning of the third set and quickly slipped to a 3-0 deficit which he could not claw back as Shapovalov marched on to the quarter-finals. — — - Stream the 2022 Australian Open live and on demand on discovery+.