Lucas Pouille hailed new coach Amelie Mauresmo for bringing him "a lot of confidence" after Wednesday becoming the first Frenchman to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open since Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in 2010. The 28th seed fought back from a break down in the first set to stun 16th seed Milos Raonic 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-7 (2/7), 6-4 and reach the last four of a Slam for the first time. The 24-year-old had never won a match at Melbourne Park before this year but will on Friday face Novak Djokovic for a place in the final.

"I think she's bringing a lot of confidence to my game, to my personality, to my state of mind," he said of the Frenchwoman, who won the singles crown at Melbourne Park in 2006. "As I said at the beginning, the goal is not to reach the final, the semi-final, the goal is to improve my tennis, to put into a match what I work on during practice. "That gives me less pressure.