Michelsen, who ousted 11th seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in his opening match at Melbourne Park, earned a second Top 20 scalp. The 20-year-old capitalized on his four break points against the 19th seed. series Karen Khachanov, 2023 semi-finalist, in her 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-2 victory. Michelsen finished with a +12 differential to improve on his third-round performance here a year earlier.
“I’ve only been broken once today. Three out of five is very good for me,” said the world number 42. “I played the pressure points pretty well. Tie-break, 7-5, then I hit two winners on 5-All. I don’t know where it comes from. It just happened.
Tien, who is fresh off a spellbinding four-hour, 49-minute upset of world No. 5 Daniil Medvedev that ended in a tiebreaker in the final set just before 3 a.m. Friday and left Michelsen admit: “I can’t reveal how late I was. up”, there were impressively more left in the reserve than Corentin Moutet.
