🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Carlos Alcaraz (22) is the youngest ATP player to reach at least 3 consecutive quarterfinals at the Australian Open since Novak Djokovic in 2008-2010 (22 at his 3rd consecutive quarterfinal at the event)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Iva Jovic (18) is the youngest WTA player to reach the Australian Open quarterfinals since Nicole Vaidisova in 2007 (17), and the youngest American player to reach the quarterfinals at the Australian Open since Venus Williams in 1998 (17)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Aryna Sabalenka has reached the quarterfinals or better in each of her last 14 WTA tournaments, since a loss to Clara Tauson in round 3 of Dubai 2025, 11 months ago

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 And my stats-based match previews for the 8 matches of round 4 of the women's draw of the Australian Open 2026 : docs.google.com/document/d/1... for those who are interested!

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 You can read through my stats-based match previews for the men's round 4 of the Australian Open 2026 on docs.google.com/document/d/1... (with a few extended previews!)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Ben Shelton defeats a seeded opponent at a Grand Slam for the 2nd time in over 2 years (2-7 since the start of 2024), after winning against 16th seed Lorenzo Musetti at last year's edition of the Australian Open

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elise Mertens has won 11 of her 12 WTA matches since the start of 2025 against players outside the top 100 (11-1): against #361 Lois Boisson in round 1 of Roland Garros

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 With Lorenzo Musetti, Luciano Darderi, and Jannik Sinner, it will be the 1st time with at least 3 Italian ATP players in round 4 of the Australian Open (previously, the most was 2 in 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2025)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Luciano Darderi reaches round 4 of a Grand Slam for the 1st time, after he had lost both of his previous 3rd-round matches at Wimbledon 2025 (to Jordan Thompson) and US Open 2025 (to Carlos Alcaraz)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 With Iva Jovic, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Madison Keys, and Amanda Anisimova, at least 5 American WTA players have reached round 4 of the Australian Open for the 2nd time since 2003, after 2019 (Sloane Stephens, Danielle Collins, Anisimova, Keys, Serena Williams)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Madison Keys is the 2nd defending champion in the last 9 editions of the Australian Open (since 2018) to reach the 4th round in their title defence, after Aryna Sabalenka in 2024 and 2025

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Jessica Pegula reached round 4 of the Australian Open for the 1st time since 2023, after she had lost in round 2 in 2024 (to Clara Burel) and round 3 in 2025 (to Olga Danilovic)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Mirra Andreeva has yet to lose before the 4th round of the Australian Open, in 3 appearances at the event (lost in round 4 in 2024 and in round 4 in 2025)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Elina Svitolina has reached round 4 in 6 of the last 9 editions of the Australian Open: in 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025, and 2026. She advanced to the quarterfinals in 3 of the previous 5 (2018, 2019, 2025)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Iva Jovic (10-2) is the 1st ATP or WTA player with at least 10 tour-level match wins in 2026 (Mirra Andreeva on 9-1), and wins against a top-20 opponent for the 1st time in her career (was 0-5)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Francisco Cerundolo reaches round 4 of the Australian Open for the 1st time, after losing in round 3 in 2023 (to Felix Auger-Aliassime) and 2025 (to Alex de Minaur) - it is his first round 4 of a Grand Slam outside Roland Garros (2023, 2024)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Alexander Zverev has only faced Adrian Mannarino (9-0) as often in ATP main draws as Cameron Norrie (7-0) in ATP main draws without losing at least once, followed by Lorenzo Sonego and Kevin Anderson, both on 6-0

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Alex de Minaur is the 1st player representing Australia in the Open Era to reach the 4th round (or equivalent) in at least 5 consecutive editions of the Australian Open (John Newcombe achieved it in 4 consecutive editions between 1973 and January 1977)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 With Yulia Putintseva and Alexander Bublik making their first appearances in round 4 of the Australian Open, the number of players representing Kazakhstan who have reached round 4 of the tournament has been doubled (Mikahil Kukushkin in 2012, Elena Rybakina in 2023, 2025)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Coco Gauff has won more WTA main draw matches against players representing the United States at the Australian Open (6-1) than she has played against them at any other tournament (5 at Wimbledon, 2-3)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Karolina Muchova has reached round 4 of a Grand Slam outside the US Open for the 1st time since Roland Garros 2023, and for the 2nd time at the Australian Open, after 2021 - Muchova reached round 4 in each of the last 3 editions of the US Open (2023, 2024, 2025)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Carlos Alcaraz defeats a seeded opponent at the Australian Open for the 1st time in a completed match (was 0-3), after his only previous win against a seed at the tournament was when Jack Draper retired in 2025

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Yulia Putintseva has reached round 4 of every Grand Slam at least once: at Roland Garros in 2016 and 2018, at Wimbledon in 2024, at the US Open in 2020, and at the Australian Open in 2026

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Daniil Medvedev is the 1st player in 2026 to win a match from 2 sets down. 4 of the 5 times Medvedev won a match after losing the opening 2 sets were at the Australian Open: 1 in 2022, 2 in 2024, and now 1 in 2026

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Tommy Paul reached round 4 in every Grand Slam in which he faced Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: at the Australian Open in 2023, 2025, and 2026, and the US Open in 2023

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Aryna Sabalenka has reached round 4 in every Grand Slam on hardcourt she played since the start of 2021 (33-0 in the opening 3 rounds)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Victoria Mboko is the 4th WTA player representing Canada to reach round 4 of the Australian Open (Open Era), after Carling Bassett-Seguso in 1987, Maureen Drake in 1999, and Eugenie Bouchard in 2014 and 2015

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Learner Tien (20 years, 1 month) is the youngest ATP player to reach round 4 in consecutive editions of the Australian Open since Richard Krajicek in 1991-1992 (20 years, 1 month -- 9 days younger than Tien)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 You can read some of my stats-based match previews for round 3 of the women's draw of the Australian Open on docs.google.com/document/d/1... if you're interested!

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Continuing the tournament with stats-based match previews for the men's round 3 of the Australian Open on docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Wang Xinyu has reached round 3 at the Australian Open for the 1st time, completing her set of 3rd rounds, after Roland Garros (2023, 2024), Wimbledon (2024), and the US Open (2023)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Novak Djokovic won 124 of his last 125 completed Grand Slam matches against players outside the top 10 (124-1 since Wimbledon 2018), with his only loss against Alexei Popyrin in round 3 of the US Open 2024

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Linda Noskova has won her last 11 WTA matches against players outside the top 100, since a loss to #176 Bianca Andreescu at Wimbledon 2024

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Peyton Stearns has reached round 3 of a Grand Slam for the 5th time, after Roland Garros and the US Open in both 2023 and 2024. Before this year, Stearns had been 0-2 at the Australian Open and 0-3 at Wimbledon

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Ethan Quinn reaches round 3 of a Grand Slam for the 2nd time, after having lost in round 3 of Roland Garros 2025 to Tallon Griekspoor, the opponent he defeated in round 1 of the Australian Open in 2026

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Anna Kalinskaya had lost her first 2 Grand Slam main draw matches against players outside the top 50 (Camila Giorgi at the Australian Open 2018 and Kristie Ahn at US Open 2019), but has won all of her following 9

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Ben Shelton has won each of his last 23 completed Grand Slam matches against unseeded players, since a loss to Laslo Djere at Wimbledon 2023

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Lorenzo Musetti won 11 of his last 12 ATP matches against unseeded players since the Shanghai Masters, only losing against Lorenzo Sonego in Paris

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Karolina Pliskova reaches round 3 of a Grand Slam for the 1st time since the Australian Open in 2023 (lost in the quarterfinals)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Luciano Darderi has reached round 3 in each of the last 3 Grand Slams, at Wimbledon 2025 (lost to Jordan Thompson), US Open 2025 (lost to Carlos Alcaraz), and now also the Australian Open 2026

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Valentin Vacherot is the 1st player representing Monaco (man or woman) to reach round 3 at any Grand Slam, after Jean-Rene Lisnard lost in roudn 2 of US Open 2011 to Florian Mayer

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Karen Khachanov has reached round 3 in each of the last 8 editions of the Australian Open, since he lost in round 2 of the 2018 edition to Juan Martin del Potro

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Jakub Mensik matches the longest ATP winning streak of his career of 6, previously set when winning the title at Miami 2025 (and lost his first match after winning the title)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Oksana Selekhmeteva reaches the 3rd round of any WTA tournament for the 3rd time, and for the 1st time outside Prague -- after Prague 2022 (lost to Marie Bouzkova) and Prague 2024 (lost to Laura Samson)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Jessica Pegula won 24 of her 27 WTA matches against players representing the United States since the start of 2024 (24-3), with losses against Coco Gauff (WTA Finals 2024, Wuhan 2025) and Madison Keys (Adelaide 2025)

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Madison Keys has reached round 3 in each of her last 9 appearances at the Australian Open: in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, and 2026

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina has reached round 3 of all 4 Grand Slams at least twice: at the Australian Open in 2025 and 2026, Roland Garros in 2021 and 2023, Wimbledon in 2023 and 2025, and the US Open in 2020, 2022, and 2023

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Carlos Alcaraz remains undefeated against players outside the top 100 in Grand Slam main draws: 22-0

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Coco Gauff has only won as many main draw matches at Roland Garros (27-5) and the US Open (20-6) as at the Australian Open (18-6), despite never reaching the final at Melbourne Park

🎾Australian Open 2026🎾 Despite only starting to compete for Austria since the start of 2026, Anastasia Potapova is only the 2nd WTA player representing Austria to reach round 3 of the Australian Open in the last 20 years (since 2006), after Yvonne Meusberger in 2014 (lost in round 3)