The first four round of 16 will be played this Sunday at theAustralian Open. Two weeks after their duel in Brisbane, the queen Aryna Sabalenka and the young Mirra Andreeva will meet for a place in the quarterfinals Melbourne. Another nice shock will oppose the world No. 3 Coco Gauff has Belinda Bencic. In other matches, Paula Badosa will rub shoulders with the surprise Olga Danilovic while Donna Vekic will have to get rid ofAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Video – Aryna Sabalenka before her eighth at the Australian Open
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Sabalenka and Gauff in danger?
Aryna Sabalenka et Coco Gauff are the two favorites in this part of the table to go to the final. So far, neither has been beaten this season. On the one hand, the Belarusian won the tournament Brisbane and remains on eight consecutive victories, with only one set lost. Jostled by Clara Tauson in the third round, she will challenge once again the Russian nugget Mirra Andreeva. The teenager had been torpedoed by the native of Minsk 6-3, 6-2 on January 4. Reason for hope, the Russian had beaten the world number 1 in Roland-Garros 2024. The conditions are obviously different. The American is at ten rank success and still has not lost a single set this year before facing Belinda Bencic. An adversary against whom Gauff has already lost in Australia, Adelaide in 2021. In two and a half months, the former world number 4 has already shown that she is ready to beat anyone on the circuit, so be careful.
Badosa and Vekic also aim for the quarters
Eighth finalist at Wimbledon and quarter-finalist at theUS Open, Paula Badosa is for the third time in a row in the second week of a Grand Slam. Proof of the return to the highest level of the woman who made the best comeback of the year 2024. Encouraged by her companion Stefanos Tsitsipasthe Spanish can clearly have ambitions, especially since her next match is affordable against the Serbian Olga Danilovicfaller of Jessica Pegula. A third Grand Slam quarter is at stake. Finally, Donna Vekic19th player in the world, will compete against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in a meeting that promises to be close.
The program for this Sunday in Melbourne:
Rod Laver Arena
From 1h30
[1] SABALENKA, Aryna (BLR) – [14] ANDREEVA, Mirra (RUS)
-[3] GAUFF, Coco (USA) – [PR] BENCIC, Belinda (SUI)
Margaret Court Arena
From 3am
[11] BADOSA, Paula (ESP) – DANILOVIC, Olga (SRB)
John Cain Arena
From 2:30 a.m.
[18] VEKIC, Donna (CRO) – [27] PAVLYUCHENKOVA, Anastasia (RUS)
