Paul had reached the first major semifinal of his career and became just the fourth American man to make a Grand Slam semifinal since 2017.He has never won a Grand Slam before and this is the deepest run he's ever seen in the Australian Open. Tsitsipas battled it out with Karen Khachanov in the semifinals before punching his ticket to the final round with a 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 3-6 victory.Djokovic will take on Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.After a shaky start, he came out victorious in the semifinal round with a 7-5, 6-1, 6-2 result against American Tommy Paul. Djokovic was deported from Australia a year ago because of his unvaccinated COVID-19 status, but he is back in Melbourne after the country relaxed its vaccine restrictions. Novak Djokovic, who has won at Melbourne Park a record nine times, is just one Grand Slam title shy of tying Rafael Nadal's career record of 22 major titles.Players are competing for a record pool of $76.5 million in prize money, and there is no shortage of interesting storylines:

This competition has already seen it all, from weather delays, late-night battles and shocking upsets. However there have been suggestions we won't see him until the grass-court season due to his well-documented hatred of clay and Roland Garros.The end of the 2023 Australian Open is approaching with final stage officially set. He will now turn his attention to the clay-court season and French Open. However organisers announced recently that he hasn't fully recovered from knee surgery he underwent after pulling out of the Australian Open on the eve of the event. Meanwhile, Kyrgios was thought to be targeting a return at Indian Wells this week. I'm very happy I was able to get out of that.' 'If I could keep pushing myself and get out of that game, the momentum was going to switch. So I had that in the back of my mind, I just told myself to keep pushing. 'And then the first game of the third set was exactly like my semi-final against Holger (Rune). I just dug deep, managed to scrap my way through it,' he said. 'Just to kind of stay in the match, especially in the second set. The Aussie paid tribute to his own fighting abilities, which have been likened to that of mentor Lleyton Hewitt. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.

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