In Tennis, Swiss star Roger Federer and the Serbian Novak Djokovic are to clash in the first semi-final of the Australia Open to be played at Melbourne shortly. The two greats have a combined 13 Australian Open titles between them.

In mixed doubles quarterfinals India’s Rohan Bopanna and Nadiia Kichenok of Ukraine lost to Croatian Nikola Mektic and Barbora Krejcikova of Czech Republic in straight sets.

Another big name Stanislas Wawrinka also crashed out. He was ousted by the German Alexander Zverev. Zverev will meet Thiem in the second semi-final on Friday.

In Women’s singles semi finals, Simona Halep and Garbine Muguruza will clash on Thursday. In the quarterfinals on Wednesday, Simona Halep defeated Anett Kontaveit while Garbine Muguruza beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.