Reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan and the tournament’s top men’s seed Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece star in Tuesday’s main matches at the Australian Open.
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Rybakina will face the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko for a place in the semifinals at the Rod Laver Arena, the central stadium of Melbourne Park, where at night Tsitsipas will play against the young Czech Jiri Lehecka.
Another quarterfinal matchup in this part of the draw will be one hundred percent American between the young Ben Shelton, the first rookie to reach this round in 20 years, and Tommy Paul, who defeated the last Spaniard in the draw, Roberto Bautista.
Seeking his second quarters in Australia after defeating the heroic Scotsman Andy Murray, Bautista was nullified against a Paul who, with direct aces, winning forehands and quick legs that reached numerous blows, ended up prevailing 6-2, 4-6, 6 -2, 7-5.
The one who does not hesitate is the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, undefeated in this 2023 in which she has not yet conceded a single set.
Sabalenka (No. 5) advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time after beating Swiss Belinda Bencic, who got the first ‘break’ of the match before conceding 11 of the next 14 games.
Instead, like the Polish Iga Swiatek or the American Coco Gauff, the French Caroline Garcia (N. 4) joined the list of eliminated favorites after falling in two sets against the Polish Magda Linette who will face the Czech Karolina Pliskova in their first quarterfinal of a Grand Slam.
Next, the program of the main matches of Aus Open (in Ecuadorian time):
Rod Laver Arena (from 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 23)
(not before 20:30 on Monday, January 23) Elena Rybakina (KAZ/22nd seed) – Jelena Ostapenko (LAT/17)
(not before 22:00 on Monday, January 23) Karen Khachanov (RUS/18) – Sebastian Korda (USA/29)
(not before 03:00 on Tuesday, January 24) Jessica Pegula (USA/3) – Victoria Azarenka (BLR/24)
Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE/3) – Jiri Lehecka (CZE)
Margaret Court Arena (from 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 23)
(not before 10:30 p.m. on Monday, January 23) Caroline Dolehide/Anna Kalinskaya (USA-RUS) – Gabriela Dabrowski/Giuliana Olmos (CAN-MEX/3)
Kia Arena (from 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 23)
(not before 10:30 p.m. on Monday, January 23) Jeremy Chardy/Fabrice Martin (FRA) – Marcelo Arévalo/Jean-Julien Rojer (ESA-NED/3)
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Source: Eluniverso
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