Aryna Sabalenka won her eighth consecutive match to start the year, defeating Clara Tauson in a tough three-set match at the Australian Open. This victory extends her impressive streak of winning at Melbourne Park to 17 consecutive matches.
champion Aryna Sabalenka extended a few impressive streaks on Friday while becoming one of the first players to advance to the fourth round of the year’s opening Grand Slam tournament.
As well, it’s been nearly three years—the 2022 French Open—that the top-ranked Sabalenka has failed to advance past the third round of any Grand Slam tournament in which she played. “The conditions are really tough to serve, heavy conditions,” Sabalenka said. “It was really important to get all of those breaks back. It could have gone either way.”
In another early match Friday, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat Laura Siegemund 6-1, 6-2 to also advance to the fourth round. Siegemund beat after eliminating a local player on Thursday night, blowing kisses to the spectators and repeating the phrase, “How about that?!” She said she planned to spend some money on a “five-star vacation,” and mentioned that she and her friends “like boats; we like big boats; we like yachts.”
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