On day 9th of Australian Open 2010, world will witness first quaterfinals match under men’s category on 26th January. In this match Andy Roddick seeded 7th from US will Clash with Marin Cilic of Croatia who is ranked 14th in this tournament. This match will be played between Rod Laver Arena at 11:00 hours.
This match will follow the second quarterfinal match between Andy Murray of Great Britain ( Rank 5) with world’s number 2 position holder Rafael Nadal at the same court at 19:30hrs.
Seventh seeded Andy Roddick has just managed to overcome a dead end by defeating a strong challenger Fernando Gonzalez and booked a quarter final seat. He defeated Gonzalez in 5 sets 6-3 3-6 4-6 7-5 6-2 in almost three and half hours. In second and third set, Gonzalez gave a huge setback, but Rodick managed to defeat him by winning last two consecutive sets.
On the same day on 26th of Jan, two matches of Woman quarterfinals will take place. Justine Henine will clash with Nadia Petrova of Russia and in second match Jie Zheng of China will clash with Maria Kirilenko of Russia. Thisday will also witness two matches of Men’s doubles and women’s doubles.
