Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Highlights: Djokovic dethrones Sinner, to face Alcaraz in final

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: Into a tiebreaker in the fourth set, Zverev trying to take this to a decider with both players now playing close to their peak. Zverev doing very well to keep up.

4-4 on serve in the tiebreak… heating up.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: Jannik Sinner will enter the semifinal with the rub of the green over Djokovic. The head-to-head is tight at 6-4 in the Italian's favour, but it glosses over the fact that these players are on diverging career paths – Djokovic's wins came when he was younger and fitter, against an inexperienced Sinner.

Over the last year or two, Sinner has held the wash over Djokovic. Five consecutive wins, including a pair of semifinal wins in straight sets at the semifinals of the French Open and Wimbledon in 2025. He enters as favourite.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: Deep into the fourth set now and Alcaraz looking like he's perfectly okay – will want to bring this to an end soon. Zverev keeping pace, but Alcaraz beginning to rev up the crowd again.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: Working his way back physically now, is Alcaraz. Moving much better – concedes two break points, but can get some rev in his legs to save them as he begins to look a little bit more like himself again.

Zverev not able to make use of his opportunities and it's 3-3 in the fourth set. Exciting match going on.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: This match is a second meeting at the Australian Open for this pair of players. The first time around was in 2024, when Sinner entered the match as the young gun looking to upset the defending champion and title favourite.

And with a stunning performance, that is exactly what the Italian did. Combining a spectacular serving performance with the kind of flatline hitting that has always troubled Djokovic, he demolished the Serbian to everyone's surprise in the first two sets, dropping only three games.

Djokovic fought back to win the third set, but Sinner ensured no more damage as he wrapped things up in the fourth for a comprehensive 6-1, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3 victory enroute to his first grand slam title.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: For the Italian back-to-back defending champion, it has been largely routine. After a couple of early-round demolitions og Gaston and Duckworth, Sinner dropped the opening set to American Eliot Spizzirri and was struggling physically in the extreme heat – but a brief break mid-match allowed him to roar back and control the match.

He then eased past countryman Luciano Darderi in straight sets, before playing the best match of his tournament to be in complete control against the dangerous dark horse Ben Shelton in the quarterfinal. The kind of straight-sets win that proves he is simply a class apart at the moment.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: While the fourth set gets going, let's turn to our feature and begin previewing the action.

Novak Djokovic makes it to yet another Australian Open semifinal, but the 10-time champion has had plenty of fortune go his way.

He eased through the first three rounds without dropping a set to Pedro Martinez, Francesco Maestrelli, or Botic van de Zandschulp, and looking in great form.

However, his fourth round opponent, 20-year-old Jakub Mensik, withdrew before the contest, granting the Serb a walkover. He proceeded to the quarterfinal, where he faced Lorenzo Musetti.

Djokovic looked completely off-colour, playing some of his self-admittedly worst tennis in recent memory to drop the first two sets. It was only a freak muscle injury suffered by the Italian early in the third set that gave Djokovic a bonus life, and allowed him to progress.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: There's trouble for Carlos Alcaraz! He has looked well short of fully fit, and he is taken apart in the tiebreaker by Zverev. Being stretched to a fourth.

Alcaraz getting some treatment, but the door is open for the German now.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: Crucial third set tiebreaker coming up – Alcaraz struggling but still pulling off some stunning shots. He will want to wrap this up here and not be forced into a fourth set.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: This is quite remarkable. Alcaraz who relies so much on athleticism and mobility is barely moving, but it doesn't matter – his serve+1 is big enough that he doesn't need to break sweat holding serve.

No doubt Djokovic and Sinner are watching this with a lot of interest – Alcaraz looking jaded, but getting the job done. Can Zverev push to a tiebreak?

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: Zverev holds for 5-5. A couple of games earlier, Alcaraz took a medical tumeout – it looks like cramp, which Zverev has been stating, but an MTO for a cramp is rare. Is he 100%? Looks a little worse for wear, but he's still striking it well.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: On Rod Laver Arena in the first men's semifinal, world number one Carlos Alcaraz is two sets up and deep into the third set against Alexander Zverev.

Zverev serves down 4-5 in the third set, looking to stay alive late on – but Alcaraz looks to have a little too much. Only a couple of points away.

Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner, Australian Open Live Updates: Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the second semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner. Live action will begin at 2 PM IST. Stay tuned for more updates.