Hoping to emulate the achievement of his father Petr from 25 years ago, Korda advances to the last eight at Melbourne with a gripping five-set win over Hubert Hurkacz on Rod Laver Arena.
Enjoying the lion's share of crowd support against Hurkacz, Korda took a little while to get going after dropping his serve in the second game on his way to losing the first set.
However, Hurkacz found a response, which was not surprising considering his talent has taken him as high as number nine on the world rankings in 2021, the same year he made the Wimbledon semifinals.Hurkacz broke Korda twice to force a fifth set, which went on serve before being decided by a 10-point tie-break.
Hurkacz worked his way back into the contest to level at 7-7, but Korda claimed the next three points, with a cool backhand winner icing the result. An Australian Open junior champion in 2018, Korda underlined his promise when he stretched Novak Djokovic to three sets in the recent Adelaide International final, even holding a match point,
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