Zheng sweeps into last eight, as Alcaraz set to face Zverev

MELBOURNE, Australia－Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz will meet Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zverev in the Australian Open quarterfinals and Daniil Medvedev is also back in a last eight that is stacked with the top six seeds.

While the men's competition is playing fairly true to the rankings, the women's really is a tale of two halves.

No 12-seeded Zheng Qinwen, a quarterfinalist at last year's US Open, is the highest-ranked player left in the top half of the bracket, where all four women who won Monday reached the last eight at Melbourne Park for the first time.