Australian Open recap: Chalkiest Grand Slam in recent tennis history heads for quarterfinals‎

Follow The Athletic’s Australian Open coverage Welcome to the Australian Open briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. On Day 9, a banner day for American women’s tennis, seeds holding strong and a player with a familiar quandary. How have seeds sown a record in Melbourne? Tennis fans may recall the heady days of Wimbledon 2025, when the first two rounds turned into a Hunger Games for the best players in the world. That tournament, 2