Abandonment and tears
Elina Svitolina was released from her body this Monday in Melbourne.
Hit in the back against Linda Noskova, the faller of Iga Swiatek in the 3rd round, the Ukrainian had to throw in the towel after only three games in the first round.
Manipulated in the lower back after two games, Gaël Monfils' wife, unable to serve and in tears, gave up after the next game, at 3-0 in favor of Noskova, after 23 minutes.
It was in tears that she left the Rod Laver Arena.
Tears that barely dried at the press conference.
To discover
Australian Open: women’s schedule and results
Australian Open: men’s schedule and results
The surprise
The 19-year-old Czech, Linda Noskova, 50th in the world, is one of the revelations of this Australian Open, particularly stunning in the women's draw.
Full of confidence at the start of the season, the winner from Adelaide against Aryna Sabalenka had never gone beyond the second round of a Grand Slam before.
The other feeling
A Ukrainian woman chases another.
Coming from the qualifications, Dayana Yastremska won against the former winner in Melbourne Victoria Azarenka, her seventh consecutive match.
A success for the 93rd in the world (7-6, 6-4).
Azarenka may harbor regrets.
She missed two set points on her serve at 6-5 in the first act and two more in the decisive game before giving in (7-6).
She also led 3-0 in the second set before a surprising comeback from the Ukrainian, who had never made it past the round of 16 in a Grand Slam before.
The phrase
“
It’s like my heart is going to come out of my body.
During the match, I imagined almost 25 times that I was going to lose, I was trailing in the first set, in the tie-break, in the second... I had the impression of always being in chasing the train
,” said Yastremska.
On the courts
Russian Daniil Medvedev leads two sets to zero against Portuguese Nuno Borges (69th).
The number 3 at the ATP is close to qualifying for the quarter-finals for the third time in his career (after 2021 and 2022) in Australia. The last French representative in the men's table, Arthur Cazaux is led 1 set zero by the Polish Hubert Hurkacz on the John Cain Arena.
The top seed9 won the first act 7-6.
The Frenchman erased five break points in the sixth game of the second set.
World number 6 Alexander Zverev, for his part, started his round of 16 match against Briton Cameron Norrie (22nd) at the Margaret Court Arena.
Future
The phenomenon Carlos Alcaraz faces the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic on the Rod Laver Arena, from 9 a.m. in France.
The 60th in the world, who has never reached the quarter-finals of a major tournament, does not leave with the favors of the forecasts.
In the women's draw, Océane Dodin, the last tricolor in the running, will not start before 11 a.m. against the Chinese Qinwen Zheng, seeded 12.
Rod Laver Arena
Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) - Carlos Alcaraz (ESP/N.2)
Qinwen Zheng (CHN/N.12) - Océane Dodin (FRA)
Margaret Court Arena
Alexander Zverev (GER/N.6) - Cameron Norrie (GBR/N.19)
John Cain Arena
Jasmine Paolini (ITA/N.26) - Anna Kalinskaya (RUS)