04:51
N. Djokovic – A. Zverev 1: 0
The first game ball can ward off the first game ball after a long forehand Longline from Djokovic to 30:40. Even after that, the second surcharge at the Belgrade tennis player has to go. Zverev is lucky with a network scooter, but is under pressure at the volley and plays the forehand online to 1-0 for Djokovic in the first set.
04:49
N. Djokovic – A. Zverev 0: 0
The 24-fold Grand Slam winner also has to trust his second surcharge and again it goes over a long distance, but Djokovic gets the 30:15 with the surrounding forehand. The surcharge is not yet there on the Serbs, but with a strong service winner, the number seven in the world won two game balls.
04:45
N. Djokovic – A. Zverev 0: 0
Djokovic opens the match with its serve. The tennis player from Belgrade has to go about the second serve. He brings the ball into the field, but Zverev plays his backhand Longline from the T-line and gets it 15: 0. Even after that, the Serb has to go over the second serve. Again the ball ends up in the field and a long and competitive rallies are developing over 27 rallies, which the joker wins for itself after a backhand from Zverev, for 15.
04:37
N. Djokovic – A. Zverev 0: 0
The coin talent goes to Alexander Zverev and he decides to set up. Novak Djokovic will open the match with his serve.
04:37
The players are there – it starts!
Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev enter the hard court in the Rod Laver Arena and get warm. It starts in a few minutes! At 21 degrees, the two players play with open roof.
04:25
Balance speaks for Djokovic
The two tennis players met a total of 15 times on the ATP tour. The Serb won nine times and Zverev six times. However, the last meeting was two years ago. At that time, the joker prevailed 7: 6 and 7: 5.
04:18
Zverev also had to struggle in the quarter -finals
Alexander Zverev is again in the semi -finals of the Australian Open after 2024. Last year, the Hamburg -born lost in five sets against the Russian Medvedev. This year the German number one wants to go to the final. On the way to the final, he was very easy at the beginning of the tournament. The first three matches against Pouille (6: 4, 6: 4, 6: 4), Martinez Portero (6: 1, 6: 4, 6: 1) and Fearnley (6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 4) he ended after three sentences. In the round of 16, the Olympic champion from 2021 gave a sentence and won 6: 1, 2: 6, 6: 3 and 6: 2 after four sets against the Frenchman Humbert. In the quarter-finals, the 27-year-old got to deal with Tommy Paul. The Masters winner of Paris 2024 struggled against the American and narrowly won the first two sentences in the Tiebreak with 7: 6. The third set then had to hand in number two with 2: 6, but in the fourth set the German was back and won the match 6-1. Now the former number one in the world is waiting for Tokyo’s Olympic champion, Novak Djokovic.
04:10
Djokovic adds his 25th Grand Slam title
Novak Djokovic is in a semi -finals for the 50th time at a Grand Slam tournament. The Serb has lost only one of the last 39 matches at the Australian Open. The former number one lost the semi -finals against the later winner Jannik Sinner last year. This year the 37-year-old struggled through the tournament. In the first and second round, the Serbian tennis player needed four sets and won against Basavareddy 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4 and 6: 2. In the second round he won against the Portuguese Faria 6: 1, 6: 7, 6: 3 and 6: 2. In the third and fourth round, the current number seven in the world only gave Machac (6: 1, 6: 4, 6: 4) and then in the round of 16 Lehecka (6: 3, 6: 4, 7: 6) no chance. Carlos Alcaraz was waiting in the quarter-finals. The Spaniard won the first set with 6: 4 and Djokovic had a knocked out, took the medical break and then won 6: 4, 6: 3 and 6: 4. It remains to be seen how fit the Serb is now. The 24-time Grand Slam winner could not train on Wednesday and Thursday due to a thigh injury.
04:00
Good morning
Welcome to the men’s semi-final games at the Australian Open 2025. At around 4.30 a.m., Novak Djokovic meets Alexander Zverev in the first semi-finals.