The potential championship matchups should bring a lot of intrigue to the first Grand Slam tournament of the year

Keys, the No. 19 seed and a two-time semifinalist at Melbourne Park, had won the first set. But Rybakina, who like Keys is a precise winner machine when she is playing the tennis she wants to play, had taken the second by seizing the initiative and playing on her front foot. Halfway to the finish, Keys had become a passive counterpuncher.

Iga Swiatek is dominating her Australian Open opponents the way no one has at Melbourne Park since Maria Sharapova in 2013. Swiatek's latest lopsided win came via a 6-1, 6-2 score in the quarterfinals against No.

Hope for an All-American semifinal was dashed after five-time Grand Slam winner Iga Swiatek beat Emma Navarro on Wednesday.

Madison Keys is back into the Australian Open semifinals for a third time after her 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 win Wednesday over Elina Svitolina of Ukraine.

Iga Swiatek continued her run through the Australian Open on Wednesday, cruising past Emma Navarro to reach the semifinals, where she will meet Madison Keys.

She couldn’t lay a hand on the Queenslander. Barty sliced her and diced her, picking her apart with stock balls and zooters, working her over like Shane Warne bowling leggies to Daryl Cullinan.

American player Ben Shelton has criticized some of the questions and comments made by post-match TV interviewers at the Australian Open after reaching the semifinals at the Grand Slam tennis tournamen

Ben Shelton reaches his first Australian Open semi-final with a battling win over Lorenzo Sonego in Melbourne.