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Three of today's five completed 4th round matches were decided because a player had to call it quits.
In the mens' tournament, M1W Gilles Simon moved to his first grand grand slam quarterfinal after M4E and former Komusubi (=Junior Champion II) Gael Monfils had to give up with an injured wrist, being 1-2 sets down. The other three remaining 4th-round matches are still to be played.
In the ladies' tournament, Yokozuna (=Grand Champion) Serena Wiliams lost the first set to M4E Victoria Azarenka, but Azarenka could not complete the second set. Serena will now meet M1W and former Ozeki (= Champion) Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarterfinals, who got free passage against M8E and former Komusubi Jie Zheng.
A clean win was recorded by the young, unseeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro, who beat copatriot Annabel Medina Garriques (M7W) in two sets. Suarez, who had eliminated Yokozuna Venus Williams in the second round, enters her second grand slam quarterfinal after the French Open 2008. She will face Sekiwake (=Junior Champion I) Elena Dementieva, who blasted past M6E Dominika Cibulkova. Dementieva came into the Australian Open with semifinal participations at Wimbledon and the US Open, and is therefore only one win way of regaining Ozeki status that she last held at the French Open of 2005.
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