Marie Mahé, Media365, published on Wednesday January 15, 2025 at 9:30 a.m.
This Wednesday, Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, world No. 1, punched her ticket for the third round of the Australian Open, unlike Qinwen Zheng.
Aryna Sabalenka did not fall into the trap. This Wednesday, the Belarusian, world No. 1, seeded No. 1 and double title holder, qualified for the third round of the Australian Open, after beating the Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, 54th. world player, in two sets (6-3, 7-5) and 1h36 of play. In the first set, after the Belarusian's first service game won by the main interested party, the two players chained breaks in the next five games. It was Aryna Sabalenka who, at 5-2, had a break in advance. Enough to then allow him to pocket this first round, on his own throw-in (6-3). Finally, in the second and final set, the world No. 1 lost her faceoff at 1-2, before winning the last four games, including her opponent's final two services, and the match (7-5) . It's already over for the Chinese Qinwen Zheng, Olympic champion, 5th player in the world and seeded No. 5, who fell against the German Laura Siegemund, 97th player in the world, in two sets (7-6 (3), 6- 3) and 2h18 of play.
Pegula on target, Osaka dismisses Muchova
If, in the first round, everything came down to a tie-break, in the second, the Chinese lost her first two services and never managed to catch up, despite a successful break. For her part, the American Jessica Pegula, 6th player in the world and seeded n°7, upheld the hierarchy against the Belgian Elise Mertens, 34th player in the world, in two sets (6-4, 6-2) and 1h12 game. Her next opponent will be the Serbian Olga Danilovic, 55th player in the world, who defeated the Russian Liudmila Samsonova, 21st player in the world and seeded n°25, in two short sets (6-1, 6-2) and 1h06 of play. Qualification also for the Russians Diana Shnaider, seeded n°12 and Mirra Andreeva, seeded n°14, the Polish Magdalena Frech, seeded n°23 and the Canadian Leylah Fernandez, seeded n°30. On the other hand, it is over for the Czech Karolina Muchova, seeded n°20, beaten by the Japanese Naomi Osaka.
