MADRID, 26 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Kazakh tennis player Elena Rybakina and the Russian Aryna Sabalenka will play the final of the Australian Open, the first ‘Grand Slam’ of the year, in an unprecedented match in the tournament and which will allow the winner of the duel to lift for the first time in her career title.
While Aryna Sabalenka, currently number 5 in the WTA ranking and who became number 2 in the world, still does not have any ‘Grand Slam’ title in her career and will look for her first ‘big’, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (number 25) He does know what it’s like to win a ‘Grand Slam’ after his victory at Wimbledon last year.
The first to get the ticket for the final of this edition was Elena Rybakina, who beat the Russian Victoria Azarenka in two sets (7-6, 6-3) in 1:41 hours of the game. A tight duel in the first set, which was decided 7-4 in the ‘tie break’, but in the second set Rybakina had the absolute dominator.
And that the Kazakh missed the first of the three match balls she had. But, still with a margin of error, she pressured the Russian to make a new unforced error and be able to celebrate her pass to the grand final, where she will seek her fourth tournament and second ‘Grand Slam’.
He will face Aryna Sabalenka, world number 5 and the highest seed of the tournament in the semifinals, who went to the final battle beating the Polish Magda Linette in two sets (6-7, 2-6) in 1:33 game hours.
A clash similar to that of Rybakina, in which Sabalenka had to go to the ‘tie break’ (1-7) to close the first set and, in the second, imposed her game to show that she is in shape (she comes from winning the tournament from Adelaida 1) and who is strongly committed to opening his record in Australia and in a ‘Grand Slam’.
It will be an unprecedented final for an Australian Open that will have in Sabalenka or Rybakina the new champion and relay of the Australian Ashleigh Barty, retired at the top of her career.