Week 2 of the Australian Open was a bit of a letdown in some ways as far as drama was concerned. There was only one match this week that could truly be considered a memorable classic. That said, big names like Andy Murray and Milos Raonic put up clutch performances, while Aussie young gun Nick Kyrgios won an epic to reach his second career Grand Slam quarterfinal. Here are the best five ATP matches before the men’s final.

5) R16: Milos Raonic d. Feliciano Lopez 6-4 4-6 6-3 6-7(7) 6-3

This was a clash of big servers that went on longer than expected. Feliciano Lopez rose up with his lefty serve and slice game to push Milos Raonic to five sets, but his trio of double faults on key points is what cost him the match. Raonic broke in the first, third, and fifth sets on double faults by Lopez, while failing to break him in the two other frames. Lopez played a quality fourth-set tiebreak to push the match to five sets, and it seemed the momentum of the match was shifting towards the Spaniard. But instead Raonic gathered himself and was steely on serve, which was enough to put him through to his third career Grand Slam quarterfinal. The consistent Canadian won nearly 80% of his first-serve points and nearly 60% of his second-serve points. He was 0-10 on break point chances besides those Lopez double faults, however, while Lopez generated just three break point chances in the match (taking one of them in set 2). Raonic continues to improve in 2015.

4) Semifinal: Andy Murray d. Tomas Berdych 6-7(6) 6-0 6-3 7-5

After a shaky and tepid first set from Andy Murray, the Scot took control of his semifinal encounter with Tomas Berdych, who had vanquished Nadal in the previous round and was riding high. Murray put up 16 aces and dominated on serve, as well as at the net. Rather than fading and letting Berdych continue to lead in the match after dropping the first-set tiebreak, Murray got fired up and played fantastic second and third sets. Berdych was frustrated and lifeless, while Murray was moving well and striking the ball beautifully. The fourth set was more competitive and engaging, but Murray got a late break and remained cold-blooded on serve to send Berdych packing. Even with former Murray team member Dani Vallverdu in Berdych’s corner now, it didn’t seem to have much effect on the outcome of the match.

3) R16: Andy Murray d. Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3 7-5

This was another great match from Murray preceding his encounter with Berdych. Grigor Dimitrov was up breaks in the first and fourth sets but lost them both, and the match in four sets to Murray. The shot-making here was excellent, but Murray was able to frustrate Dimitrov even while playing a less flashy style of tennis, and his movement in this match was superb. He wore Dimitrov down by running him around for a while and then pounced when the opportunity arose, especially to finish the match in the fourth set. These two always have physically demanding and highlight-worthy encounters, and this match shows there is still a gap between Dimitrov and the top five right now that he is going to have to work to bridge. Murray had 16 fewer unforced errors than Dimitrov and almost the same number of winners, playing cleaner albeit less flashy tennis.

2) Semifinal: Novak Djokovic d. Stan Wawrinka 7-6(1) 3-6 6-4 4-6 6-0

The fifth set was a letdown, but the first four frames were quality tennis, as yet again Stan and Novak traded blows in a Grand Slam match that went five sets. Djokovic was simply better in the clutch, rolling the first-set tiebreak, and winning sets decisively in the third and fifth frames, even after Wawrinka had raised his level. Wawrinka was motivated to break and win the fourth but for some reason totally faded into irrelevance in the fifth. Djokovic was fantastic from the baseline as his excellent defense had to cope with Wawrinka’s powerful and spinning backhand. He covered the court masterfully and counterpunched with power when the time was right, putting himself through to yet another Australian Open final and avenging his loss to the Swiss last year. Both players are showing no signs of decline compared to last year.

1) R16: Nick Kyrgios d. Andreas Seppi 5-7 4-6 6-3 7-6(5) 8-6

This extremely high-quality encounter on Hisense Arena began week 2 of the tournament. Nick Kyrgios worked his way into this match and saved match points in the fourth set, eventually prevailing after a long fifth set. Kyrgios, who has more natural power and a heftier serve than the Italian veteran Seppi, went for his shots but was coming up with errors in the first two sets, while Seppi was keeping the ball more under control and hitting some incredible shots with his backhand, especially down the line. After Seppi went two sets up, the crowd grew a bit restless, but Kyrgios didn’t waiver at all and took the third. In the fourth set, Seppi was ahead and looked committed to getting it done, but he couldn’t convert the match point chances he had, and Kyrgios eventually broke late in the fifth set to put the match away. The young Aussie has acquitted himself well at the Grand Slam level and now has two career quarterfinals on his resume as a teenager. The last player to do that on the men’s side was the great Roger Federer, a player Kyrgios would certainly love to continue to mirror. The quality of rallying in this match and the tactical play was sublime, and it’s a shame, after all the drama, that one player had to lose, since Seppi also played brilliantly, probably better than he did when he upset Federer.