Yastreska advanced to the semi-finals and became the fifth player in the Open era.Excerpted from Australian Open Twitter
[Zhan Jianquan/Comprehensive Report]Less than two years ago, Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska fled with her younger sister. Now she defeated the world’s 50th in the top 8 of the Australian Open women’s singles in straight games. 19-year-old Czech teenager Linda Noskova has become the fifth player since the Open era to reach the top four of women’s singles from the outside competition!
The 23-year-old Ukrainian player defeated the 19-year-old Noskova 6-3, 6-4 in the top 8 of the all-African seeded players at the Laver Center Court today, and achieved the 8th place in Melbourne in the past three weeks. victory and advanced to the quarterfinals of a major championship for the first time.
The former world No. 21 Yastreska is currently ranked only 93rd. She is the fifth out-of-conference player to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam in the Open era, following Christine Dorey in 1978. The second player to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open. Three of them were set in the past 10 years, including British player Emma Raducanu who won the US Open championship from a qualifying event two years ago, and Argentinian Nadia Podoroska in 2020. Reached the semi-finals at the French Open (Roland Garros).
Yastelenska is the fifth Ukrainian woman to enter the semi-finals of a Grand Slam. She will become the second player to enter the semi-finals after Elina Svitolina; but what is surprising is that less than Two years ago, Astlenska took her sister to say goodbye to her family and fled to France because of the Russian invasion.
Dayana Yastremska fled with her sister at the end of 2022. Excerpted from Yastreska IG
Yastreska is the lowest ranked player among the top eight players, and all five of her wins in the tournament came against players ranked higher than her. It only took her 1 hour and 18 minutes to defeat world No. 50 Noskova – who had previously eliminated world No. 1 Iga Swiatek in the third round and then defeated Iga Swiatek. Ukrainian compatriot and 19th seed Svitolina retired due to injury after playing only three games in the fourth round.
Noskova was the first player to break serve in the quarterfinals – Astelenska made three unforced errors after 1-1 and was broken first, but Astelenska immediately broke back After a 2-2 tie, they broke serve twice in the 8th game and won the first set 6-3. In the second set, after a crucial break in the 7th game, Astlenska finally won 6-4.
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