The adventure continues for Dayana Yastremska (WTA 93). After qualifying, the Ukrainian will play the semi-finals of the Australian Open. She secured her place in the last four thanks to her 6-3 6-4 success over Linda Noskova (WTA 40), the Czech who eliminated world No. 1 Oga Swiatek on Saturday.
At 23, Yastremska becomes only the 2nd qualifier to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open in the Open era (since 1968), after Christine Dorey in 1978.
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“It’s nice to write the story, I wasn’t even born at that time“, smiles the native of Odessa. For a place in the final, she will face the Chinese Qinwen Zheng (15), who defeated the Russian Anna Kalinskaya (75) 6-7 6-3 6-1.
Already 8 successes
Yastremska has already played – and won – 8 matches on the courts of Melbourne Park. She notably brought down the Czech Marketa Vondrousova, world no.7 and surprise winner of Wimbledon in 2023, in the first round, and the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, ex-world no.1, in the round of 16. Before the Australian fortnight, the Ukrainian had never made it past the round of 16 in a Grand Slam (at Wimbledon in 2019).
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Finally, we will point out that Yastremska, who climbed to the top-20 in 2019 and 2020, before slipping outside the top-100, was cleared in June 2021 on appeal after a positive doping test sanctioned by a suspension in the first instance. time.
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