Sensation
The fairy tale continues for 23-year-old qualifier Dayana Yastremska.
The 93rd in the world, from qualifying, dominated Linda Noskova without trembling (6-3, 6-4), this Wednesday in the quarter-final.
The Czech, who fell to Iga Swiatek in the 4th round, suffered the law of the Ukrainian who won her eighth consecutive match in the Antipodes.
She notably brought down Marketa Vondrousova, the surprise winner of Wimbledon 2023, and former winner Victoria Azarenka in the round of 16 in the first round.
Dayana Yastremska had never made it past the round of 16 in a Grand Slam…
To discover
Australian Open: women’s schedule and results
Australian Open: men’s schedule and results
The stats
The sensation Yastremska emerges as only the second player from qualifying to reach the final four in Melbourne in the Open era (since 1968).
Christine Dorey achieved this feat in 1978. “It’s nice to make history, I wasn’t even born at that time,” smiled the tournament sensation.
The info
Now a consultant while awaiting a possible return to the courts, Nick Kyrgios has declared that he will not represent Australia at the Paris Olympics this year, even if he is fit.
“
One thing I can guarantee you is that if I am fit and ready to play, I will not make myself available for the Olympics
,” he wrote in an op-ed published in the
Fairfax
newspapers. .
“
The way I was treated by the Australian Olympic Committee and former chef de mission Kitty Chiller will never be forgotten.
Banning me from playing at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics was a shame.
I was number 13 at the time and had a real chance of winning a medal.
For them to ban me from representing my country for behavioral reasons is something I simply cannot forget
.”
On the court
Daniil Medvedev and Hubert Hurkacz will compete in a fifth round.
The Pole has just equalized at two sets everywhere (6-7, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5).
Future
The Chinese Qinwen Zheng, world number 15, and the Russian Anna Kalinskaya, 75th in the world, will face each other in the last women's quarter-final.
Dayana Yastremska will thus know the name of her future opponent.
The match between the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz and the German Alexander Zverev will be the highlight of the 11th day.
In the evening, Alcaraz, aged 20, will try to reach the final four of the Australian Open for the first time.
Zverev, at 26, will play the third quarter-final of his career in Melbourne, where he has only reached the semi-finals once, in 2020.
(from 7:15 p.m. local time, 9:15 a.m. in France):
Anna Kalinskaya (RUS) - Qinwen Zheng (CHN/N.12)
Alexander Zverev (GER/N.6) - Carlos Alcaraz (ESP/N.2)