Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic 2010

Novak Djokovic is yet to be tested at this year’s Australian Open as he came through another straight forward match against Lukasz Kubot winning 6-1 6-2 7-5.

Of the eight men left in the competition Djokovic has had the easiest draw and has come into some fine form in the last week.

Djokovic need just twenty eight minutes to wrap up the opening set as there was little resistance from Kubot, who made it to the quarter finals after his fourth round opponent Youzney had to withdraw with injury.

I was more of the same in the second as Djokovic, who is hoping to get his hands on the Australian Open title for the second time after winning in 2007, needed another thirty three minutes to take a two set lead.

However Kubot wasn’t finished and finally in the third set Djokovic had a match on his hand as the Pole began to fight back.

With the pair level at 5-5 it looked like the third set may go to a tie break but an untimely double fault from Kubot gave Djokovic the much needed break.

The Serb went on to serve for the match wrapping up victory to face Frenchman Jo-Wilfred Tsonga in the quarter finals.

But Tsonga’s match was anything but straight forward as he was pushed to five sets by Spaniard Nicolas Almagro.

With just a solitary break in both the first and second set Tsonga, who had survived a four set thriller with Tommy Haas on Saturday, was well and truly in the driving seat.

The tenth seed threw away the third set when a double fault at 5-4 down handed the Spaniard the set 6-4 and a way back into the match.

Tsonga went on to gift the fourth set to Almagro in the tie break as two unforced errors saw Almagro level the match taking it into a fifth set.

The fifth set was another close affair but it was Tsonga who struck in the sixteenth game of the fifth set to finally get a break point.

After three and a half hours the 10th seed wrapped up the win 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-7 9-7.

The quarter final between Djokovic and Tsonga is a rematch of the 2008 final, where Djokovic got the better of the Frenchman to lift the title.

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