Aryna Sabalenka stormed into the Australian Open 2024 girls’s singles after a dominating win over Coco Gauff on Thursday, January 25. The Belarus ace thrashed the US Open champion in straight units 7-6, 6-4 at Rod Laver Arena and shall be going through China’s top-ranked Qinwen Zheng within the final on Saturday.
The 25-year-old defending champions confronted her hardest problem within the semifinal after early exits for match favourites Iga Swiatek and Elen Rybakina. But the US teen was not ready to finish Sabalenka’s sensational run at Melbourne Park regardless of taking the opening set to the wire.
Gauff, coming from her maiden Grand Slam glory within the US Open, loved a clean marketing campaign with out going through any seeded participant till immediately. Coco famously defeated Sabalenka within the US Open final final 12 months and loved a head-to-head file with 4 wins to two. But the in-form Sabalenka confirmed no backing down with a dominant efficiency in entrance of a packed enviornment.
Meanwhile, within the second semifinal, the world no.15 Qinwn Zheng additionally registered a dominant win in opposition to unseeded Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska. Zheng recorded a 6-4, 6-4 win and surprisingly confronted no seeded participant on her manner to the ladies’s singles final.
Zheng’s earlier finest in Grand Slam tournaments got here final 12 months when she stormed into the quarterfinal of the US Open by defeating top-ten-seeded Ons Jabeur. She was defeated by Sabalenka within the quarterfinal and as soon as once more will enter the sport as second favourites on Saturday.
In the boys’s singles, the defending champion Novak Djokovic is going through Italian teen Jannik Sinner within the first semifinal on Friday whereas the world no.3 Daniil Medvedev conflict in opposition to the world no.6 Alexander Zverev within the second recreation for the final.
