Watch the Australian Open with live streams of every court at 9Now. Click here to start watching!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Karatsev has been the biggest surprise of the tournament, today becoming the first male in the professional era to reach the semi-finals in his debut Grand Slam. He also became the lowest-ranked man to reach the semi-finals at Melbourne Park since Patrick McEnroe did it back in 1991, who was also ranked No.114.<\/p>\n The Australian Open debutant's win over Dimitrov mean's he's now made it past three seeded players this tournament, with No.8 Diego Schwartzman and No.20 Felix Auger-Aliassime the other two.<\/p>\n The Russian underdog has surprised so many at this year's event, he was forced to explain his life story to reporters after the match, with the internet providing little information about the emerging Karatsev.<\/p>\n "I'm born in Russia, the city of Vladikavkaz. I moved to Israel when I was three years old with my family and then I started to practice there, in I Yafo, Tel Aviv-Yafo. I think you know it," he said after the match.<\/p>\n "And then I grew up there, practising there until 12 years old, and then I moved back to Russia with my father. Then I was living in Rostov, next city to Rostov, Taganrog, and I found a sponsor there.<\/p>\n "I was practising there until 18 years old, then I started practising in Moscow. Then I started to work with (former professional Dmitry) Tursunov, and then they said like, okay, I will help you to move to Germany to practice in Germany in Halle.<\/p>\n "I was there two years, and yeah, then I moved to Barcelona, practising there, and then the last three years, almost three years, I'm working with Yahor Yatsyk, my coach, in Belarus, in Minsk. There is a fitness coach, also, Luis from Portugal, so we're working together for almost three years."<\/p>\n Asked who he credits his breakthrough to, Karatsev tipped his hat to his coach and team.<\/p>\n "I think the key is to find the right team, the right coach that I found. I was really lucky to find him, and we just met in one tournament," he added.<\/p>\n "I played futures, and we were saying, okay, let's try to work together, and it's really – I think it's a big luck that we start to work together and I have a good team around me."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russian qualifier Aslan Karatsev has continued his hot run at the Australian Open by advancing to the semi-finals of the tournament. Twenty-seven-year-old Karatsev, who is […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35450,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35448\/revisions\/35450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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