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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

2020 Australan Open Men's Singles QF's - Austria's Dominic Thiem beats Rafael Nadal ,will face Germany's Alexander Zverev in SF's Thursday Jan 30,2020

Austria’s Dominic Thiem stunned Rafael Nadal Wednesday to send the world number one tumbling out of the Australian Open and set up a semi-final against Alexander Zverev.

The fifth seed, beaten by Nadal in the last two French Open finals, battled past the Spaniard 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 7-6 (8/6) to deny him a crack at a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam title.

He will now meet German seventh seed Zverev who shattered the dreams of veteran Stan Wawrinka 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 to book a maiden place in a Grand Slam last four.

It is to be noted that Rafael Nadal had a 9-4 record over Thiem and had beaten him in all their five previous Slam meetings.But the last time they played on hardcourts -- at the 2018 US Open quarter-finals -- it was a five-set marathon

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