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Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025
For a place in the semifinals, Serena Williams will meet Czech seventh seed Karolina Pliskova.
Pliskova advances to meet Naomi Osaka for a place in the final.
Top seed Simona Halep staved off a spirited challenge from American youngster Sofia Kenin to prevail 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-4 and set up a showdown with former world No. 1 Venus Williams.
The 37-year-old Serena, chasing a record-extending eighth Melbourne title in the professional era, demolished Ukrainian teenager Dayana Yastremska 6-2, 6-1.
Top seed Halep had the odds stacked against her ahead of the Australian Open, but the Romanian proved her title credentials with a breezy 6-2, 6-3 third-round win over multiple Grand Slam winner Venus.
Federer's Switzerland won 4-2, 4-3 (3) against Serena's USA in a mixed doubles decider at the Hopman Cup.
Djokovic was treated for a sore left shoulder throughout his 6-4, 7-6 (7/3), 6-1 victory over Argentina's 56th-ranked Juan Ignacio Londero.
Djokovic, champion in four of the past five Slams and 16 overall, was less bothered by left shoulder pain that nagged him in the second round in defeating 111th-ranked American Denis Kudla 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
Serena Williams' first US Open tune-up ended in dramatic fashion as the tearful American was forced to retire with a back injury while trailing Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu 3-1 in the final.
The United States Tennis Association, which runs the US Open, said that this year for the first time at the Grand Slam it will post code violations on the scoreboard as they occur.
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