By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday January 11, 2024
If World No.1 Iga Swiatek goes to expertise a breakthrough on the 2024 Australian Open, she’ll should defeat not less than one former Grand Slam champion to do it. The 22-year-old was handed a tough draw on Thursday in Melbourne, drawing 2020 champion Sofia Kenin as a spherical one opponent.
Swiatek will then face the winner of a first-round conflict between former Australian Open finalist Danielle Collins and three-time Slam champion Angelique Kerber within the second spherical.
Swiatek has been drawn into the identical half as 2023 runner-up Elena Rybakina, the lady who knocked her out within the spherical of 16 final 12 months – and the pair may doubtlessly meet within the semifinals.
The Polish juggernaut has by no means been to the ultimate on the Australian Open. She reached the semis in 2022 and owns a 15-5 lifetime file on the occasion.
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Australian Open ladies’s singles draw (printable view) pic.twitter.com/8tG9RQ9Wdf
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In blockbuster backside half first-rounder, four-time Grand Slam champion has been drawn to face France’s Caroline Garcia within the opening spherical. The winner of that match will face both Beatriz Haddad maia or Linda Fruhvirtova.
2018 AO champion Caroline Wozniacki has been drawn to face Twentieth-seeded Magda Linette of Poland within the first spherical.
In the decrease half of the draw, second seed Aryna Sabalenka, final 12 months’s champion, has drawn a qualifier in spherical one. Fourth-seeded Coco Gauff, who grew to become a Grand Slam champion for the primary time eventually 12 months’s US Open, will face Anna Karolina Schmiedlova within the opening spherical.
The quarterfinals form up as follows, if the seeds maintain:
Iga Swiatek vs Marketa Vondrousova
Elena Rybakina vs Jessica Pegula
Maria Sakkari vs Coco Gauff
Aryna Sabalenka vs Ons Jabeur
Source: www.tennisnow.com
