Australian Open: Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals are now set down under, and while we did get a few unexpected results yesterday, the major players in the brackets have remained largely intact with the exception of 5-time champion Serena Williams' early exit last night (or later today) to unseeded Makarova, a Russian ranked outside the top 50.  I'll leave it to others to find the last time Williams exited to played ranked that low at a major.  But, the top four seeds are still atop their section on both the men's and women's tournaments, so this should be a spectacular second week.  And we've already seen Wozniacki/Jankovic and Li/Clijsters.  However, we won't see Murray/Tsonga or Sharapova/Williams.  Anyway, here are the last eight:

Men
1) Novak Djokovic (SRB) - 19th major quarterfinal (5th at the AO), 13-5 record (2-2), 11th consecutive QF
2) Rafael Nadal (ESP) - 22nd major quarterfinal (6th at the AO), 17-4 record (2-3), 10th consecutive QF
3) Roger Federer (SUI) - 35th major quarterfinal (9th at the AO), 29-5 record (8-0), 31st consecutive QF
4) Andy Murray (GBR) - 11th major quarterfinal (3rd at the AO), 8-2 record (2-0), 5th consecutive QF
5) David Ferrer (ESP) - 6th major quarterfinal (3rd at the AO), 2-3 record (1-1), last '11 Aussie Open
7) Tomas Berdych (CZE) - 5th major quarterfinal (2nd at the AO), 2-2 record (0-1), last '11 Aussie Open
11) Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) - 5th major quarterfinal (2nd at the AO), 2-2 record (0-1), last '09 US Open
24) Kei Nishikori (JPN) - 1st major quarterfinal, best result 4th round '08 US Open

Women
1) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) - 6th major quarterfinal (2nd at the AO), 3-2 record (1-0), 2nd consecutive QF
2) Petra Kvitova (CZE) - 4th major quarterfinal (2nd at the AO), 2-1 record (0-1), last '11 Wimbledon
3) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) - 6th major quarterfinal (2nd at the AO), 1-4 record (0-1), last '11 Wimbledon
4) Maria Sharapova (RUS) - 16th major quarterfinal (5th at the AO), 12-3 record (4-0), last '11 Wimbledon
8) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) - 5th major quarterfinal (3rd at the AO), 0-4 record (0-2), last '11 Aussie Open
11) Kim Clijsters (BEL) - 19th major quarterfinal (7th at the AO), 15-3 record (6-0), last '11 Aussie Open
Sara Errani (ITA) - 1st major quarterfinal, best result 3rd round 5 times
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) - 1st major quarterfinal, best result 4th round '11 Aussie/French Opens

A couple notes:
-Some of these quarterfinal record are incredible:  Nadal 17-4, Federer 29-5, Murray 8-2, Sharapova 12-3, Clijsters 15-3.  Those numbers are why they are the best in the game.
-Sharapova has never lost a major quarterfinal not at the French Open.  Clijsters and Federer are also unbeaten in AO quarterfinals.

Tuesday/Wednesday matches:
Djokovic vs Ferrer
Murray vs Nishikori
Federer vs Del Potro
Nadal vs Berdych
Wozniacki vs Clijsters
Azarenka vs Radwanska
Sharapova vs Makarova
Kvitova vs Errani