Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka raced into the Australian Open quarter-finals whereas Coco Gauff recovered from a set right down to defeat Belinda Bencic.
Sabalenka had been pushed in her two earlier matches by Jessica Bouzas Maneiro and Clara Tauson, however she was ruthless in opposition to 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva.
Teenager Andreeva upset Sabalenka on the French Open final summer season, however she lasted simply 62 minutes on Rod Laver Area as the highest seed dished out comparable therapy to that meted out on Emma Raducanu by Iga Swiatek on Saturday.
After her 6-1 6-2 victory, Sabalenka stated: “I am tremendous completely satisfied to get this win. Mirra is so younger, so mature, such an awesome participant. She will be able to play actually nice tennis.”
Sabalenka, who’s trying to develop into the primary girl to win three singles titles in a row right here since Martina Hingis on the finish of the Nineteen Nineties, prolonged her profitable streak at Melbourne Park to 18 matches.
She is going to subsequent tackle seventeenth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who reached the quarter-finals right here for the fourth time with a 7-6 (7-0) 6-0 victory over Donna Vekic.
A blockbuster semi-final conflict between Sabalenka and Gauff is showing extra possible after the American hit again to beat Bencic 5-7 6-2 6-1.
The Swiss, a former top-10 star and Olympic gold medallist, lately returned to the tour following the start of daughter Bella final April and performed a high quality first set.
However Gauff, who had received all her earlier matches this yr in straight units, took management early within the second and ultimately powered her option to victory in scorching situations on Rod Laver Area.
“I assumed within the first set she performed nice tennis, it was robust for me to be on the offence,” stated the 20-year-old.
“I simply performed extra aggressively within the second set and within the third set. Total I am pleased with how I performed. I might have received the primary set and I simply tried to reset.
“We labored onerous within the low season. Clearly there’s lots to go for me to perform my targets.”
Gauff mourned the lack of TikTok’s app again dwelling, writing on a TV digital camera lens “RIP TikTok USA” and drawing a damaged coronary heart proper after profitable her match.
Gauff will subsequent meet eleventh seed Paula Badosa after the Spaniard ended the run of unseeded Serbian Olga Danilovic with a 6-1 7-6 (7-2) victory to achieve the final eight right here for the primary time.
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