A double title holder at the Australian Open, Aryna Sabalenka has experienced any difficulty in climbing in the round of 16 of the Australian Open. Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva and Paula Badosa also passed, while Diana Shnaider was eliminated and Naomi Osaka abandoned.
And 17 victories in a row for Aryna Sabalenka in Melbourne! Double title holder at the Australian Open, the world n ° 1 will see the second week of the 2025 edition, after her victory 7-6, 6-4 in 2:07 against Clara Tauson (42nd), which she faced for the first time. Once it is not custom in the first rounds of great home, the Belarusian was pushed into her entrenchments, but she ended up having the last word. It is in particular in the service that Sabalenka encountered difficulties, but his opponent was not in a big day in this area either.
Thus, the first seven games of the match ended with breaks (4-3 for Tauson). The world No. 1 has been breaking again in the process to equalize at 5-5 and has obtained four set balls on the service of its opponent. But the Danish saved them. Everything therefore played the decisive game, where Sabalenka made his experience speak to win 7-5 by winning the last three points. The next round promises to be full -bodied for the world No. 1, which will challenge Mirra Andreeva, already 15th in the world at 17. The Russian needed three sets, but she eliminated Magdalena Frech 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 in 1h58. After taking place in the first set (two breaks), she missed the second (three bleached breaks), but won the last four games in the third to win this match and go challenge Sabalenka, who has just beat her 6-3, 6-2 in half in Brisbane.
Bencic takes advantage of the abandonment of Osaka and will challenge Gauff
In this same quarter of the table, the other opposite match Donna Vekic to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The Croatian, 19th in the world, created a little surprise by eliminating Diana Schnaider, 13th, after a 3-hour fight won 7-6, 6-7, 7-5, in a match at eleven breaks. Vekic won the first Tie-Break 7-4, then lost the second 7-3. In the third round, the Russian led 5-3 but then completely cracked, losing the last four games. Her compatriot Pavlyuchenkova has lost only three games against Laura Siegemund, but she still spent 1h33 on the court before winning 6-1, 6-2, because most of the games were long.
The world n ° 11 Paula Badosa will also see the second week, after its 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Marta Kostyuk in a nine breaks match. In a match between young mothers, Belinda Bencic (294th) won the tie-break of the first set 7-3 against Naomi Osaka (51st) before seeing the Japanese, touched in the shoulder, abandon. The Swiss will have the formidable honor to challenge the world number 3 Coco Gauff, who did not tremble against Leylah Fernandez, beaten 6-4, 6-2 in 1h16. The American broke 3-3 in the first round, then led 3-0 in the second before losing one of her breaks in advance, and finally breaking again at 3-1 to win.
