The intensity of the Australian Open women’s tournament continues to increase. Iga Swiatek, second player in the world, passes the roller against Slovak Rebeca Sramkova (6-0 and 6-2) on the way to the third round that he has not been able to beat.
The former world number one, who will make up for it at the end of the course’s first Grand Slam, took one hour and one minute to knock out her opponent in the competition, who will be making her debut in the second leg of the event.
The Slovak has never been able to beat a player ranked in the top ten in the world. She didn’t do it on her day either against Latvian Jelena Ostapenko or against Italian Jasmine Paolini.
Not even against Swiatek, whom he had never played before and overwhelmed in his second match at the event.. The champion of five Grand Slams – four Roland Garros and one United States Open – semi-finalist in Melbourne in 2022, his best role, She will have as her next opponent, in search of the round of 16, Emma Raducanu, who defeated the American Amanda Anisimova by 6-3, 7-5.
Russian Daria Kasatkina also advanced to the round of 32, defeating China’s Yafan Wang by the same score (6-2, 6-0) and waiting for her opponent to win the clash with Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, twenty-four seeds , and the Chinese Shuai Zhang, and the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska who defeated the Montenegrin Danka Kovinic (6-0 and 6-1) and that waiting for the Kazakh Elena Rybakina, sixth seed, who beat the American Iva Jovic with great authority (6-0, 6-3).
Ons Jabeur also won the fast track. The Tunisian gave a feeling of being close to finding her best tennis, which she showed at times against Colombian María Camila Osorio, who was unable to trouble the African.
Jabeur put aside the bad moments he suffered in 2024, which was plagued by injuries and poor results. They beat the South Americans 7-5 and 6-3 and for the first time in the last three years she reached the third round where she will face the winner of the match between the American Emma Navarro, the eighth seed, and the Chinese Xiyu Wang.
It took the Tunisian less than an hour and a half to knock Osorio down again. The South American was never able to beat Jabeur who added another victory, the fifth, in many matches, the most recent before it was in Nottingham, on grass, and Roland Garros, on clay.
Ons Jabeur reached the quarterfinals in 2020, which he also reached this year in Brisbane. Osorio failed to equal his best record in a Grand Slam, when he reached the round of 32 at Wimbledon in 2021. Today, he was stuck in his fourth main draw appearance in Australia.
Later, Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, the seventeenth favorite, won undefeated against Russian Erika Andreeva (6-2 and 6-3). and reached his ceiling in the first Grand Slam of the season.
The Australian tournament was the only major where the Brazilian did not reach the round of 16. Now he is just one step away from the round of 16 that he intends to reach. But first she has to overcome the winner of the confrontation between the Russian Veronika Kudermetova and the British Katie Boulter, the twenty-second favorite.
It took the Brazilian player one hour and twenty-two minutes to defeat the Russian, who hardly bothered Haddad Maia. Not even in the second set, when the Brazilian experienced a slump in her game, Andreeva was able to tie the match.
The Brazilian left-hander took advantage of Mirra Adreeva’s sister’s inexperience in the main draw of a Grand slam. She debuted without a win at the Australian Open in what was her seventh match against a player ranked in the top twenty of the women’s rankings.
Source: La Verdad
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