And this tournament just got serious, the quarter-finals match up's are:
Djokovic
Ferrer
Murray
Nishikori
Del Potro
Federer
Berdych
Nadal
To be honest this line up is not much of a suprise apart from the appearence of Nishikori in the place of Tsonga, it is great that a Japanese player has made it this far at a Grand Slam and even if he loses to Murray it will still have been a great achievment and a good start to the year.
So the question people are finally beggining to whisper is who will win the championship?
So for those interested lets take a look at how the last 8 got to the quarter-final:
Djokovic Murray
Vs Paolo Lorenzi 62 60 60 Vs Ryan Harrison 46 63 64 62
Vs Santiago Giraldo 62 62 61 Vs Edouard Roger-Vasselin 61 64 64
Vs Nicolas Mahut 60 61 61 Vs Michael Llodra 64 62 60
Vs Lleyton Hewitt 61 63 46 63 Vs Mikhail Kukushkin 61 61 10 (Retired)
Ferrer Nishikori
Vs Rui Machado 61 64 62 Vs Stephane Robert 61 76(9-7) 60
Vs Ryan Sweeting 76(7-4) 26 63 26 36 Vs Mathew Ebden 63 61 46 16 16
Vs Juan Ignacio Chela 75 62 61 Vs Julien Benneteau 64 67(3-7) 67(4-7) 36
Vs Richard Gasquet 64 64 61 Vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 26 62 61 36 63
Del Potro Federer
Vs Adrian Mannarino 62 16 57 46 Vs Alexander Kudryavstev 75 62 62
Vs Blaz Kavcic 46 57 36 Vs Andreas Beck (Walkover)
Vs Yen-Hsun Lu 62 63 60 Vs Ivo Karlovic 67(6-8) 57 36
Vs Philipp Kohlschreiber 64 62 61 Vs Bernard Tomic 64 62 62
Berdych Nadal
Vs Albert Ramos 75 46 62 63 Vs Alex Kuznetsov 64 61 61
Vs Olivier Rochus 61 60 76(7-4) Vs Tommy Haas 64 63 64
Vs Kevin Anderson 75(7-5) 76(7-1) Vs Lukas Lacko 62 64 62
Vs Nicolas Almagro 46 76(7-5) 76(7-3) 76(7-2) Vs Feliciano Lopez 64 64
Djokovic
My favourite picture from the caption contest so far: 
Another moment of anger played out during this years Australian Open cost that player $8,000 in fines for unsportsmanlike conduct, David Nalbandian is the player I am speaking off. In a five-set match against Isner in his second round match, Isner was facing a break point when chair umpire Kader Nouni overruled a fault call on Isner’s first serve and would not let Nalbandian challenge the call, saying that Nalbandian had not been quick enough. Nalbandian protested the ruling to Nouni and supervisor Andreas Egli, but the call was not overturned.
Federer was asked for his opinion and he said “You wish that you talk about how great they were serving and returning and playing instead of talking about this one stupid call. Unfortunately it might have changed the outcome of the match potentially. We all knew that this is exactly the type of point that needs to be challenged, either from John or from David or from the umpire. We need to see the call. It can’t be that there is no call. So it was just so unfortunate. I felt bad for David, but it was still a great match. I guess the players and the umpires need to get it right in terms of helping each other.”
4. Australian Open program ($20). For fans of Super Novak, worth the cover price just for the great locker-room shot of Novak celebrating with his team last year. For this 100th championship, the program is packed with player profiles of the top 100 men and women. (Disclosure: this writer’s byline is on the men’s profiles.) 
