With power, without dropping a set in four matches, Arina Sabalenka It is for the first time in the quarter-finals of Australian Open Championship. The 24-year-old Belarusian, ranked fifth in the world, won 7-5 and 6-2 in 87 minutes Belinda Bencic and finally broke the barrier of the round of 16, which she faced in 2021 and 2022. Now she is waiting for a competitor: Croatian Donna Vekic or Czech Linda Frohvertova.
“I am very happy with the victory and the level at which I am playing. I have all my life (Fighting feelings). It took me a while to understand that negative thoughts on the track don’t help, and you have to stay strong and believe no matter what. I am very happy with my mentality during the match. One of the keys to what I do is that my doctor has been able to travel with me,” said Sabalenka, who three weeks ago was the Adelaide 1 champion.
The truth is that it looks centered and With the double faults issue ended. On this occasion he committed four, nothing compared to the ten Or more than he used to accumulate in past seasons, when he led that statistical section at the circuit. With submission now earns a lot of points. Against Bencic, 78% with the first and 64% with the seconds. And even though he plays less flat than before and spins the ball more, he still hits plenty of winners (32). And it doesn’t make many mistakes (18). Thus, he is an obvious candidate for the title.
Pliskova forces her face on Zhang
Karolina Pliskova is strong. The Czech, 30 and 30 favorite, won convincingly 6-0 6-4 in 55 minutes over Chinese 34 and 22 Shuai Zhangand qualified for the fourth time to the quarter-finals of the tournament in which she was a semi-finalist in 2019. Pliskova imposed her favorite fights (8-0 now) and her strength (12 aces for a total of 33 winners). She will face Poland’s Magda Linette or France’s Carolina Garcia on Wednesday.
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