To reach the semifinals, Dayana Yastremskaya had to defeat eight opponents. We have a game ahead of us in which either a Russian or a Chinese woman will compete against herself.
Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremskaya defeated her opponent Linda Noskova from the Czech Republic and reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open 2024 tournament. To achieve this, the athlete passed the qualifying round in Melbourne and became the first person to achieve such a result since 1978. Details of Yastremskaya’s victory were reported on the tournament portal.
The Australian Open 2024 portal showed the results of eight qualifying matches won by the Ukrainian tennis player. Especially the Croatians (Lea Boskovic), the Greeks (Valentini Grammatikopoulou), the Australians (Maya Joint), the Czechs (Marketa Vondrousova), the French (Varvara Gracheva), the Americans (Emma Navarro), the Belarusian (Victoria Azarenka) and, in the last semi-final tournament, the Czech Linda Noskova. .
Journalists from the Ausopen portal noted that Yastremskaya played with “steel-like concentration and aggression” throughout the match against 19-year-old Noskova.
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“It’s nice to make history. This is new for me and my generation because the last time was so long ago. I’m so happy to be in my first semi-final. I was a little nervous but the Semi-finalist was quoted as saying on the portal: “I was tired at the same time. I guess I was too emotional.”
The match lasted 1 hour. 20 minutes. and it ended with a score of 6-3 6-4 in favor of the Ukrainians. Thanks to this result, he rose from 93rd to 29th in the world rankings and became the “third racket of Ukraine”.
It is also stated that this is the fourth success of Ukrainian athletes. Previously, similar results were shown by tennis player Elina Svitolina (reached the final in 2014 and 2019), tennis players Alexander Dolgopolov (in 2011) and Andrei Medvedev (in 1995).
Yastremskaya has a semi-final ahead of her against Anna Kalinskaya (Russian, competing in neutral status) and Chinese Qin Wen Zheng.
On Yastremskaya’s Instagram page you can see congratulations from her fans and images of her winning streak at the Australian Open 2024. Among other things, her match with Linda Noskova and then reaching the final of the Australian Open 2024.
Let us also note that Diyana Yastremskaya is a 23-year-old Ukrainian tennis player from Odessa, who reached the Wimbledon final in 2016 and became a doubles finalist at the Australian Open in the same year. She won three women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tournaments and the same number of titles in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournaments.
Australian Open 2024 – details
Australian Open 2024 is an Australian international tennis tournament that starts on January 13 and runs until January 28. Athletes compete among themselves in various categories (men’s and women’s singles, doubles, wheelchair players). The total prize fund of the tournament is AUD 86,500,000 (US$ 54 million). The biggest prize money awaiting the winner in the main category will be 3,150,000 AUD (2 million USD).
We remind this before Focus He wrote about the events that took place at tennis competitions in Australia. On January 17, complaints of a Russian athlete regarding the behavior of match spectators became known. According to him, some people were allegedly drunk and meowing when he entered the court. On January 20, an incident occurred with Ukrainian athlete Elizaveta Kotlyar – she shook hands with a Russian woman.
Source: Focus
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