Djokovic beat beat Dominik Koepfer 7-5, 6-3, while Auger-Aliassime downed U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6 (5)
Novak Djokovic is back in the Summer Games singles quarter-finals for the fourth time in five appearances at the Olympics. What he really wants, of course, is a gold medal, pretty much the only significant achievement missing from his remarkable resume.
Medvedev entered the day with a 7-0 head-to-head record against Auger-Alissime but is no fan of playing on clay: Five of his eight French Opens ended in the first round. Medvedev reached six Grand Slam finals, all on hard courts, with two of the five defeats at that stage coming against Djokovic. Next up for Djokovic will be a familiar foe in a familiar setting: On Thursday, Djokovic meets Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece for a spot in the final four. It’s a rematch of the 2021 final at the French Open – which is contested each year at Roland Garros, the site being used for these Games – and Tsitsipas took the first two sets that day before Djokovic came back to win in five.
Also moving into the quarter-finals was Carlos Alcaraz, the 21-year-old from Spain who won the French Open in June and Wimbledon 2 1/2 weeks ago to raise his Slam total to four, Tommy Paul of the U.S. and Lorenzo Musetti of Italy. Alcaraz and Paul will play each other in the quarter-finals, a rematch from Wimbledon, where Alcaraz won in the same round.
But he took the last two games of the first set, eliciting chants of his two-syllable nickname from the crowd: “No-le! No-le!” When Koepfer trudged to the sideline, he chucked his racket at his bench.
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