Australian Open 2024 results: Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka through in Melbourne

- By Jonathan Jurejko
- BBC Sport at Melbourne Park
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Gauff has moved past the fourth spherical on the Australian Open for the primary time
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Coco Gauff says she usually forgets she remains to be a young person after changing into the youngest lady to succeed in the Australian Open singles quarter-finals since 2008.
The 19-year-old American booked her spot in the final eight by sweeping previous Poland’s Magdalena Frech 6-1 6-2.
“I’ve lived so many lives in the last four years that I just feel older than 19,” US Open champion Gauff stated.
Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka continued her personal serene progress by beating Amanda Anisimova 6-3 6-2.
Gauff and 25-year-old Sabalenka stay on the right track to satisfy in the Melbourne final 4, which might give the Belarusian a possibility to avenge her defeat in their US Open ultimate.
After bursting on the scene as a 15-year-old at Wimbledon in 2019, Gauff fulfilled her long-heralded potential by touchdown a primary Grand Slam title in New York.
Now, in her ultimate main match as a young person, she is the second favorite on the Australian Open behind second seed Sabalenka.
“Sometimes I forget my age. I know I’m not going to be a teenager anymore,” stated Gauff, who’s the youngest participant to succeed in the Melbourne quarter-finals since Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska.
“When I’m wanting on the different women on tour who’re 16, 17, and now developing, they simply really feel so younger and I really feel so outdated.
“I do know I’m not that outdated, however I undoubtedly do overlook my age quite a bit.”
Gauff, who has not confronted one other seed, will play Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk subsequent, whereas Sabalenka faces both 16-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva or Czech ninth seed Barbora Krejcikova.
Neither Gauff or Sabalenka have dropped a set on the first Grand Slam match of the 2024 season.
Seeds falling however Gauff storms on
Seeded gamers have been falling rapidly in the ladies’s singles, with solely 4 of the highest 16 left after the primary week and simply seven remaining in complete.
Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, seeded 18th, is the one Grand Slam champion left the highest half of the draw after world primary Iga Swiatek’s shock third-round defeat on Saturday.
Gauff, 19, ensured she didn’t face the identical destiny with a scientific and composed efficiency in opposition to Frech, who was competing in the final 16 of a significant for the primary time.
The American broke serve in the primary recreation on and allowed Frech to win simply 10 extra factors in a 26-minute set.
Two extra breaks of serve adopted in the second set as Gauff breezed through with out dealing with a break level.
In her first Melbourne quarter-final, she is going to face Kostyuk after the world quantity 37 simply beat Russian qualifier Maria Timofeeva 6-2 6-1.
Gauff stated she was “not too nervous” to play in entrance of the good Rod Laver – as a result of she was already nicely on the way in which to victory when the 11-time main champion arrived on the courtroom named after him.
“Luckily I used to be up quite a bit after I observed he got here in,” joked Gauff, who thanked the 85-year-old Australian for coming to her match.
Sabalenka strikes on – with new superstition
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Sabalenka beat Elena Rybakina in final 12 months’s ultimate
Sabalenka has been in equally devastating type, dropping simply six video games in her opening three matches, and produced one other dominant show in opposition to 22-year-old Anisimova.
She had misplaced her 4 previous conferences with the American however wanted simply 70 minutes to seal victory at Melbourne Park.
The 25-year-old has developed a brand new superstition this week – signing her health coach’s head with a pen earlier than every match.
“I did it earlier than the primary match,” she said. “Now it is a routine.
“Every time he’s not super happy that I’m going to do that. He’s like, ‘OK, anything for the win’.”