Dimitrov, Nadal join the exit queue at the Australian Open

The big seeds just kept on falling at the Australian Open on day nine with Grigor Dimitrov and Rafael Nadal joining the exit queue on a dramatic day of tennis at Melbourne Park.

World No. 3 Dimitrov missed another chance to push for grand slam success when he was stunned by unseeded English star Kyle Edmund.

It means two of the four semi‑finalists in the men’s singles draw will be unseeded by the time American Tennys Sandgren and Korean Hyeon Chung play out their quarter‑final today.

It was up to Nadal to reverse the trend, but after three hours, 48-minute marathon against Marin Cilic, the No. 1 seed was also packing his bags.

On the women’s side, unseeded Belgian Elise Mertens continued her dream run at Melbourne Park with a straight-sets victory over World No. 4 Elina Svitolina.

Caroline Wozniacki — fresh from hitting her first ever successful tweener in a match — may need to pull out some more tricks to overcome veteran Carla Suarez Navarro in the other quarter‑final at 2pm of the day.

Source: News.com.au