Day 6 of Olympic tennis has brought into focus the final contenders for Olympic gold medal glory. The women's draw has been whittled down to the last two, and the men's players have been minced to the closing quartet.

Here are the storylines from all the swings today on Day 6 of the Olympic tennis tournament. 

Women’s top tennis player Iga Swiatek suffered a semifinal loss on Thursday after China’s Zheng Qinwen crushed Swiatek, 6-2, 7-5, in a straight-set symphony. 

Clay court connoisseur Swiatek was caught off her game, when determined sixth seed Zheng shocked the tournament in an electric tennis match. 

Zheng's semifinal has already changed the history of tennis, as she is guaranteed to become the first Chinese tennis singles player to win a medal the Olympics. 

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China kept the wins coming on Day 6, when mixed doubles tandem Wang Xinyu and Zhang Zhizhen defeated the Netherlands' Demi Schuurs and Wesley Koolhof in a super tiebreak.

They became the second Chinese pair to reach an Olympic doubles final after Li Ting and Sun Tian-Tian won the women's doubles gold medal in Athens in 2004.

Wang had only replaced Zheng in the mixed doubles at the last minute.

"It was like (I had) finished my first Olympics (after losing in the women's singles)," Wang said. "I was checking the tickets, making plans for the next weeks. And then all of a sudden I get a phone call, ‘You want to play? OK, sure'."

Day 6 saw China enjoy unprecedented success, and for the first time in history, China has finalists in two Olympic tennis events. 

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Second seed Carlos Alcaraz clinched his first Olympic semifinal berth in his debut at the Games. The Spaniard dismissed American Tommy Paul in a scintillating straight-sets victory, 6-3, 7-6.

Alcaraz’s win has made him the youngest player to reach the men’s singles semifinals at the Olympics since Beijing in 2008, when another Paris player, Novak Djokovic did the same.  Fans are eagerly anticipating in what could be a blockbuster Olympic men’s final, should Alcaraz advance, he could face the No. 1 seed Djokovic for the gold medal. 

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Men's top seed Novak Djokovic battled back from an aggravated knee on Day 6, toppling No. 8 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6-3, 7-6. 

He needed treatment at a change of ends and almost went down 5-1 before recovering and surging back to seal victory.

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Djokovic will now aim to snap his semifinal curse and to beat Italy's Lorenzo Musetti who had a 7-5, 7-5 win against reigning defending champion, Alexander Zverev.

"I didn't feel good the whole week. And the second round, I felt horrible on the court. I felt horrible today by the end of the first set," third seed Zverev said. "It's upsetting.

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American doubles dynamos, Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram secured their spot into the Olympics men's doubles final on Thursday after they defeated Tomas Machac and Adam Pavlaseck of Czechia, 6-2, 6-2. The pair return to the Games seeking their first medal as a team. Krajicek finished fourth at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, and Ram won a silver medal fin 2016 with mixed doubles partner Venus Williams.

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Andy Murray saw his Olympic and professional tennis career come to a close on Thursday, when he and doubles partner Dan Evans suffered a quarterfinal loss to Americans Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz, 6-2, 6-4. 

Three-time Grand Slam champion Murray announced before the Games kicked off that he would retire from tennis after his Olympic run. 

After the final score was called, Murray returned back to the court to wave to the fans. But before he did, Murray embraced his doubles partner, Evans.

As Murray walked back onto the court, Evans eyes welled with tears, as a true tennis hero and Olympic legend took his final tennis bow.

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