Canada's Milos Raonic hits a shot during his quarter-final match against France's Gael Monfils at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia, on Wednesday. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)
Canada's Milos Raonic won his quarter-final match Wednesday at the Australian Open against France's Gael Monfils to advance to the tournament's semifinals for the first time.
Raonic took the match 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
He will next play Great Britain's Andy Murray for a chance to move on to the tournament final. Raonic and Murray are 3-3 in head-to-head matches.
In his only previous run to a Grand Slam semifinal, Raonic lost to Federer at Wimbledon in 2014.
Murray moves on
Murray, making his 18th trip to a Grand Slam semifinal, beat David Ferrer 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday
No. 2-seeded Murray's match with Ferrer involved plenty of long rallies. Two of them — at 27 and 31 shots in length — came during the second-set tiebreaker, and Murray lost both of those points. But the Scotsman moved out to a 4-1 lead in the third set, during which there was a brief break when the roof on Rod Laver Arena was closed due to an approaching thunderstorm.
Murray is a four-time finalist at the Australian Open. He lost the 2015 final to Novak Djokovic.
Azarenka defeated
Angelique Kerber won five consecutive games in the second set and saved five set points to beat two-time champion Victoria Azarenka 6-3, 7-5 in the Australian Open quarter-finals.
Kerber broke Azarenka's serve to end the match, hitting a cross-court backhand at the net to beat the Belarussian for the first time in seven career matches.
The No.7-seeded German will play the winner of the later quarterfinal between Britain's Johanna Konta and Chinese qualifier Zhang Shuai.
Konta's run continues
Johanna Konta beat Chinese qualifier Zhang Shuai 6-4, 6-1 to reach the semifinals at the Australian Open, becoming the first British woman to advance to the last four of a Grand Slam event since 1984.
The Sydney-born Konta, who is making her debut in the main draw of the Australian Open and is ranked No. 47, beat seven-time major winner Venus Williams in the first round and reached the quarter-finals with a 3-hour win over No. 21 Ekaterina Makarova, a semifinalist at Melbourne Park last year.
Konta, who has lived in Britain since she was a child and became a citizen in 2012, is the first British woman since Jo Durie at Wimbledon in 1984 to reach a major semifinal.
She will play No. 7 Angelique Kerber in the semifinals.
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