Australian Open 2015: Twitter Reacts to Day 8 Bracket Results, Scores, Winners

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Published: January 26, 2015

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The quarterfinals at the 2015 Australian Open are set. Monday's action in Melbourne finally crystallized the field that will compete for the year's first major championship on the men's and women's side, where both brackets are filled with high-profile names and one surprising outlier.

Top seeds Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic each moved on Monday as expected, the former mounting a comeback after a disappointing first set and the latter continuing his rampage to a fifth title Down Under. Williams completed her 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Garbine Muguruza despite making 35 unforced errors and double-faulting five times.



The world No. 1 especially struggled in the first set. Unable to consistently place her serve, Williams was constantly on the defensive as Muguruza mounted her upset bid on return points. The Spaniard won 52 percent of her return points during the set, including an incredible 11-of-12 mark on Williams' second serves. 

“I didn’t start out so well and she did everything she needed to do in the first set, so I just decided to do my best, stay focused and relax,” Williams told reporters.

Ben Rothenberg of The New York Times noted second serves bothered Williams throughout the match:



Williams righted herself over the final two sets, dropping only five games and getting stronger as the match went along. She forced Muguruza to convert one of her eight break opportunities over those final two sets and was at least somewhat better controlling her second serve. Hitting 41 winners compared to her opponent's 29 also helps.

Williams moves on to face Dominika Cibulkova, to whom she has lost one set strewn across four matches. The No. 11 seed dispatched of a returning Victoria Azarenka in three sets and will try to make her second straight Australian final. Bill Connelly of SB Nation was a little disappointed f...
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