Jannik Sinner and Elina Svitolina won their respective Round 3 matches and advanced to the pre-quarters. While Sinner beat Marcos Giron in straight sets, Svitolina got the better of Jasmine Paolini.

Jannik Sinner and the pair formed by Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini have been named International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Champions 2024, respectively in the men's singles and women's doubles categories,

It's an up-and-down day for favorites and the husband-and-wife duo of Gaël Monfils and Elina Svitolina wo their singles matches.

Italian world number four Jasmine Paolini discusses the renaissance of tennis back home in her first column for BBC Sport at the Australian Open.

As much as any top player, Sinner has been able to expose De Minaur’s lack of first-strike weaponry. The Aussie’s strength is his scrambling and counterpunching, but Sinner serves too well, hits too hard, places the ball too precisely for his defense to be effective. De Minaur hasn’t found a way to hurt, rattle, of disrupt him.

Lorenzo Sonego will take on American Ben Shelton in the other men’s quarter-final on Jan 22. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The ITF also named Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Mate Pavic of Croatia, and the Italian pair of Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini as doubles world champions.

Follow live text and radio commentary featuring Emma Raducanu, Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia.

The International Tennis Federation named Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek as its 2024 world champions. Sinner, facing a potential ban, excelled in Grand Slams. Swiatek won the women's title amid a short doping suspension.

Swiatek narrowly edged out year-end No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka to become women's World Champion having previously received this honour in 2022. The Polish player captured her fourth Roland Garros title by the age of 23 and won four WTA 1000 titles during the year.

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The Australian Open quarter-finals continue on Wednesday and top seed Jannik Sinner's task of defending his crown is not getting any easier. The Italian is recovering from an illness and will face Australia's last hope Alex De Minaur,