Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Sunday January 19, 2025 at 8:13 a.m.
After two laborious victories in the previous rounds, Aryna Sabalenka returned to steamroller mode this Sunday to dispatch Mirra Andreeva in just over an hour. The impressive series continues for the double defending champion, who finds herself again in the quarter-finals.
Aryna Sabalenka on her way to a third consecutive title in Melbourne? The world number 1 has not yet officially registered her name on the Australian Open list for the third year in a row. He still needs three victories. However, here we are already in the quarter-finals (for the third year in a row) and the 26-year-old Belarusian champion should not end up very far from a new title. Her new demonstration, Sunday against the young Russian nugget Mirra Andreeva (6-1, 6-2), sent back to her studies in a little over an hour (1h03), attests to this. When she plays as she did against the 15th in the world during this round of 16 in which she was quick, there is not much to hope for Sabalenka’s opponents. After two somewhat laborious victories in the previous rounds, against the Dane Clara Tauson and the Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, the Belarusian, first qualified for the quarter-finals and whose impressive series continues in Melbourne with an 18th victory in a row (Editor’s note : What no player had managed to do since Victoria Azarenka in 2014), was back in steamroller mode this Sunday. Sabalenka, imperial, will be opposed in the next round to another Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 32nd in the world, who fell on Sunday to the Croatian Donna Vekic in two sets, including a 6-0 in the second.
First for Gauff
Coco Gauff experienced much more difficulty than the world number 1 in getting rid of the Swiss comeback Belinda Bencic. The young American champion who had never gone beyond the round of 16 stage in the tournament nevertheless continues her journey, with a quarter-final coming up against the Spaniard Paula Badosa, who disposed of the Serbian Olga Danilovic in two sets (6-1, 7-6). As for Gauff, world number 3, she got off to a bad start in her match against the former world number 4 before leaving only crumbs to the Swiss (5-7, 6-2, 6-1).
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