The Day 13 schedule has just dropped and his match against Shelton will be the prime time match.
Djokovic vs Zverev will be no earlier than 2:30pm in the afternoon.
Djokovic always gets his way,allowed to play his matches at night and in prime time,it’s unusual this time he doesn’t
Aryna Sabalenka will face Madison Keys in the Australian Open women’s singles final on Saturday night. In tonight’s semi finals, Sabalenka came from 0-2 down in the first set to defeat good friend Paula Badosa 6-4, 6-2, while Keys beat Iga Swiatek in three sets 5-7, 6-1, 7-6, claiming third set tie break 10-8. Keys actually had a match point in the 12th game of the third set before the Polish world No.2 rebounded and forced the tie break. It will be Keys’ first Grand Slam final since 2017.
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I’d say the seedings played a part here, Sinner No. 1 and also prefers night.
What a match, one of the best women’s semis I’ve seen, could not be split
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Should be 2 great men’s semis today then .
The second women’s semi last night was a great match.
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Olivia Gadecki and John Peers are this year’s Australian Open mixed doubles champions, beating Kim Birrell and John-Patrick Smith 3-6, 6-4 [10-6].
It was the first time since 1967 that the Australian Open mixed doubles final featured two all-Australian pairs.
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After one set, with Sverev winning 7-6 (in an hour and 20 minutes), Djokovic has just bowed out 
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What the hell just happened??? 
He just shook hands and walked off.
Potential injuries?
Svererv in his on-filed interview said for fans to give respect to Djokovic, and has said that he has won in the past with injuries, so todays match must have been serious. He didn’t notice on anything major in his intense set.
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I know but how unexpected was that. Wow.
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I think that was probably Djokovic’s last chance to win another Australian Open. He’ll be 38 next year, the oldest ever men’s winner was Ken Rosewall back in 1953, also at 37 years old.
It’s a young man’s game these days, but Djokovic has done so well to remain so competitive for so long.
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10 News Melbourne is leading with breaking news graphics with the “huge news down here at Melbourne Park” (mentioned twice)
He’s not and never will be my favourite player, but he is one of the all time greats of the game and the last of the Big 3/Big 4 that have defined the men’s game for almost 2 decades now. I hope he’s able to go out of grand slam tennis on a high note, he genuinely deserves it (would hate to see injuries force his hand into retirement).
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Not really. He looked almost gone the other night against Alcaraz.
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More disgraceful behaviour from Australian sports fans. We must have the worst crowds in the world. Booing a champion of the game that has given so much to the Australian open is beyond embarrassing.
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Does make me wonder for how much longer Australia will still get to host a Grand Slam in tennis, with the potential for places like Saudi Arabia and China to take it.
Money wouldn’t be an issue for them, and they’d almost certainly have better behaved crowds, facilities at least the equal of ours etc.
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Yeah I saw that. Tbh I didn’t see much of todays match then it was over.
We don’t deserve nice stuff here.
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The Joker is polarising, there is no denying that, you often hear the saying with him now ‘love him or hate him’. Which is sad, given he’s the GOAT and will always be compared to Roger and Rafa, but he’s poles apart and has done a lot of that off-court antics and drama to himself.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the crowd was thinking boy who cried wolf, not believing a genuine injury and just thinking to his usual time wasting/MTOs, the week from hell that’s been (Courier/Nine boycott no thanks to Tony Jones), there was the COVID and deportation issues, etc etc
I don’t agree with what happened by the way, crowd should never do that. But just saying.
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(Djokovic) was asked by Serbian media about the booing.
“I don’t know what to tell you. But, people came here, paid for the tickets and expected a battle, and they didn’t get it,” Djokovic said.
“If you look at it that way, I understand. At least I’m trying to understand them. I don’t know if they understand me or wish to understand me. I know what’s in my body, what I feel, how much I gave of myself to this tournament in the past 20 plus years. Now I’ll stop so I don’t continue down the wrong path.”
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