“Being in the quarter-final gives a lot of me confidence but I’ve got a really difficult match against Andy, He’s one of the more talented players on the tour. He can play aggressive, play offensive. I will try to play aggressive and play behind the line but if I don’t do that then I will have a flight home.” Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal beat Ivo Karlovic 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-4 to book a quarter-final meeting with Britain’s Andy Murray at the Australian Open.

British fans are supporting their country sports persons in Australian Open Tennis 2010 in Melbourne Park

“I followed it on the TV and saw the devastation, On Saturday morning I thought we should do something, I called up Tennis Australia chief Craig Tiley and said ‘is it possible?’ “He said probably not. “I called up a few players just in case and they were like, ‘we should do it straight away.’ In 24 hours we were able to pull this thing off.” Roger Federer

“Now I’ve won on every continent, except Antarctica, All the guys have raved about this golf course and I understand why. I really enjoy playing on sandbelt courses because it brings back shot-making and we don’t see enough of that. I would certainly love to come back. I’ll come up with a game plan”.

They did bowl well. There was swing there, but they exploited it well… But full credit to Australia, they took the games away.” Dhoni

“Perhaps the most satisfying series win I have been involved in. To get 11 players on the field has been a challenge in some of the games , in a couple of close games it has been the difference… ” Ponting

“I am real happy today. This tour has been a good learning experience, all different kinds of wickets, conditions…” Doug Bollinger

“They got off to a good start and we never got into a postion to contain them. It was one of the good ODI tracks we have seen in India, you have to be smart. Hopefully we will be up for the next two games.” Dhoni

” It was one of the amazing games and certainly one of the best innings ever from Sachin. Its unbelievable how we have played, considering all the injuries. Marsh played realy well.” Ponting

“I thought we started off really well then lost wickets. yeah It was one of my best knocks. I care about playing for India, it’s a passion and I have been absoloutely honoured to play for India so long.” Sachin

“We failed as a batting unit, but we bowled really well, It was a fantastic one-day wicket. The ball was coming on … This was one of the best fielding efforts in the last one and a half years.” Dhoni

“It looked like we were going to get 300 but we didn’t capitalise. India bowled well. We fielded and bowled outstandingly,” Ponting.

“We were in a good position at 60 for 3, we needed to take a couple of wickets in the middle of the innings, Yuvraj and Dhoni were superb, we had our moments but did not capitalise.”Ponting

“On this wicket, I think everybody bowled well. I’m really happy. The pitch was looking really ugly. All in all, it was a great team effort.” Dhoni

“Yeah, I was a bit rusty at the start. I was proving myself here. I think it was slightly better to bat on second, but it was not a good batting wicket.” Yuvraj

“It was always going to be a hard run chase. The wicket was very good and it was a fantastic surface to play ODI. The dew didn’t play that much a part as we though. we should have been just two wickets down but we had lost quite a few by then.”Ponting

“We lost Sachin early but Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag provided the ideal start. Then Yuvraj Singh played well. The platform was given for me to come and do my stuff. We knew that with five overs of Powerplay left, if we can take it at 38 or 40 overs we can always get to a big total. One of those innings that was good. The wicket was good and I exploited that.” Dhoni man of the match

Pakistan’s great allrounder Wasim Akram’s wife Huma was suffering from sepsis “an inflammation of several tissues, including blood leading to kidney failure” and was admitted after developing complications mid-air while on her way to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore from Pakistan. At Apollo Hospital, she was in the intensive care unit (ICU) since then and died Sunday without regaining consciousness. Wasim was married to Huma for 14 years and the couple have two sons, Taimur and Akbar. A trained medical practitioner herself. Arrangements are being made to take her body back to Pakistan