Tennis ITF Australian Open 2024

[thepharoah 2,405]

Zverev wins 1st set over Alcaraz 6-1 

[Wanderer 1,726]

Zheng will be top 10 now, and hopefully she can beat Yastremska too, it would be quite disappointing not capitalizing on such a draw. Dayana is fulfilling her potential though. It is great to see where she goes from this. I truly hope she finally matured and approaches with such calmness and determination in the future too.

 

On men's side, as great a story it would be if Novak won once more, I honestly hope for Sinner-Alcaraz final with Sinner winning. He improved so much since last autumn, and with a GS title we'll get this rivalry with Alcaraz raised to another level. We've seen that rivalries is what pushes players to keep improving and give their best. The lack of any rivalry on WTA did quite a damage. Having to rival doesn't make it interesting either for the followers - having one player winning everything.

[thepharoah 2,405]

Zverev was leading 2 sets to Nel with a break in 4rd set , but lost it in tie break , will US open final 2020 be repeated 

Edited January 24 by thepharoah

[thepharoah 2,405]

 

Zverev wins in 4 sets

[Josh 10,516]

13 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Women's top half SF will be Dayana Yastremska vs Zheng Qinwen.

 Dayana Yastremska beat  teenager Linda Noskova 6-3, 6-2, while [12]  Qinwen Zheng beat  Anna Kalinskaya 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-1 if anyone was wondering on the scores. 

[Monzanator 4,503]

Renata Jamrichova advanced into junior SF after beating Ksenia Efremova 6-2 6-1 @hckošice

 

Jan Zieliński & Hsieh Su-wei will play in the mixed final vs Skupski & Krawczyk (so that makes it two Polish names in the final ).

[Josh 10,516]

Gauff- Sabalenka time 

[Josh 10,516]

[2]  Aryna Sabalenka takes the first set 7-6 (2) over [4]  Coco Gauff in the first women’s singles semifinal!

[Josh 10,516]

And it’s all over, [2]  Aryna Sabalenka defeats [4]  Coco Gauff 7-6 (2), 6-4 to advance to her second Australian Open final in a row!

 

She’ll take on either [12]  Qinwen Zheng or  Dayana Yastremska for the title (going for back-to-back Grand Slams at the Australian Open, first since Victoria Azarenka in 2012/13) on Saturday. 

[thepharoah 2,405]

And she's yet to drop a set