Australian Open 2025: Djokovic vs Zverev semi-final; Anger at Shelton follows – live | Australian Open 2025

Zverev loses the opening point of the game but bounces back to take the next four points and grab to make it 3-3. Whereas Djokovic hitting just 36% of his first serves, the German lands 81% of the time and fires back-to-back aces to take this game.

After a shaky opening of two services, Djokovic is able to make his first serve work on the third try and it pays off, dropping just the one point – an unforced error as he tried to drop a backhand straight over the net – as he grabs and goes up to 3-2.

Zverev makes it much harder than it needed to be, but eventually pays off. Three straight unforced errors to open gives Djokovic three break points but the German saves them all to force it to deuce, with an ace giving him the advantage and a powerful shot sent straight into his opponent at the net giving him the unforced error to take the game.

Djokovic produces another hold to go up 2-1, but his inability to land a first serve already looks like it could be a problem going forward. Landing just four of his 21 serves at the first time of asking so far, the Serbian was taken to break point four times in that game, only to fight back and eventually hold. Unable to land a decisive blow, the host broadcaster is already postulating that the occasion may arrive Zverev.

A much less dramatic team too Zverev, worked his serve and baseline game to drop a single point.

Djokovic is unable to land a first serve in the opening game but still takes it. Zverev pounces on his serve to set up his first winner of the match in its opening point, before we get our first long rally – of what are sure to be many in the coming hours – one where the Serb takes his first point of the game, one that he backs up with a forearm salve to move on. Zverev can’t hold his return of serve down the tee as it takes a 40-15 lead, but he stays in it after Djokovic sends a forehand long.

But Djokovic gets the hang of it; both players, charging forward after the German has a shot, just drop from the top of the net and exchange drop shots – Zverev sending his around the net – only for the Serb to find a winner.

It’s a pleasant day in Melbourne, the oppressive heat that has characterized some of the previous days’ games gives way to a balmy 21 degrees as this semi-final begins. In other words, the weather should not be a factor in this competition.

Yesterday, of course, Aryna Sabalenka and Madison Keys move into the women’s final. Jack Snape and Tumaini Carayol has summed up the whole action.

Sins paid for to the end of Australian hopes in the men’s draw as he continued his dominance over Alex de Minaur in the quarter-finals, but the local crowd got something to cheer about yesterday when the local duo Olivia Gadecki and John Peers took out the mixed doubles.

Jack Snape have filed this from Melbourne.

Djokovic and Zverev has come out on Rod Laver, and the excitement is rising even higher as the game approaches.

Last time Djokovic and Zverev met at a grand slam come 2021, in the semi-finals of the US Open. That day, the German took the first set and was able to push Djokovic to five sets, but in the end he was unable to deny him.

Tumaini Carayol’s work in Melbourne over the last few weeks has been excellent and his stage-setter for today’s men’s semi-finals is no different.

Ebefore undergoing medical tests, defining the nature of his physical ailment and planning for his recovery, Novak Djokovic knew what was in store for him in the days following his remarkable quarter-final victory over Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday, which he won. despite struggling with left thigh pain.

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