⚖️ Onward Cristian Soldiers The Romanian pulls off the 2nd top 10 win of her career in Adelaide, defeating world #10 Alexandrova.

🚨 Vukic Vexes Tsitsipas. The Australian qualifier took out the 7th seed in straight-set tiebreaks in Auckaland, and now faces another qualifier in the QFs. The path is wide open.

🔥 Ruud Gets Rolled. Fabian Marozsan stuns the #2 seed, 6-4, 6-4, in Auckland. Ruud heads to Melbourne with just one match under his belt . Not great, Bob!

💫 Czech Off the List? Marketa Vondrousova withdraws from Adelaide after beating Liudmila Samsonova. The former Wimbledon champ is now a serious question mark for Melbourne.

⚡ A Qualified Success. AO qualifying is down to the final round, with a surprising number of big names still in the mix... including a couple of slam champions!

🎾 Adelaide International (WTA 500)

🔥 Madison Keys (2) vs. Victoria Mboko Though Mirra Andreeva, Emma Navarro, and Diana Shnaider are also still in the draw, this one feels like the match of the tournament. And it's only the quarterfinals.

🎾 Adelaide International (ATP 250)

👀 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (1) vs. Valentin Vacherot (5) It's kind of crazy that, two months ago, a match involving Vacherot wouldn't have been news. At all. But now? This feels like appointment viewing.

🎾 ASB Classic (ATP 250)

⚡ Ben Shelton vs. Sebastian Baez Shelton played his first match of the year... yesterday. Baez arrives unbeaten in 20267 with wins over Taylor Fritz and Stan Wawrinka. Wouldn't have said it a month ago, but this could be GOOD!

🎾 Hobart International (WTA 250)

🚨 Emma Raducanu vs. Taylah Preston Raducanu won her first match over the course of two days and then got a walkover. So... she should be fresh! Preston, the 20-year-old Australian wildcard with two top 100 wins this week, might not have another gear against the top seed.

🎾 Jason Kubler: The Australian is into the final round after beating 17th seed Vilius Gaubas. One win from the main draw and a potential home crowd moment in Melbourne.

🎾 Maddison Inglis: The Australian beat Claire Liu and faces Tamara Korpatsch (14) in the final round.

Oh! Inglis is also engaged to Jason Kubler. I'm pretty sure it'd be the first time a couple has come through qualifying at the same tournament, like, ever?

🎾 Sloane Stephens: The 2017 US Open champion faces Lucia Bronzetti in the final round. The American has looked stronger and stronger through her first two matches.

🎾 Rei Sakamoto & Darja Vidmanova Well, well, well! So far, I've featured two players in my One to Watch report on Tuesdays. And, lookie here! They're BOTH into the final round of Australian Open qualifying.

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