Gauff won and reached her first semi-final in Melbourne.

Coco Gauff (4th place in WTA) went to semi-finals belonging Australian Open To for the first time in my career, after the beating Marta Kostyuk (35th place) with scores of 7-6 (6), 6-7 (3) and 6-2 in three hours of play.

He first set It was like that change How irregularbecause none of them showed their best version despite promising start on the scoreboard of the Ukrainian who took the lead 5 to 1

without noticing this superiority.

Even at a level far from expected, the American gradually began to navigate the court better, significantly reducing the number of errors and helping inaccuracies a native of Kyiv 21 years ago, who committed six double faults in total to change the score and settle with a score of 6 to 5.

In any case, as happened with the owner of two WTA titles, who requested health care To blisters on her left leg, the last US Open champion failed to close it, sending everything into tiebreakerstage in which he decided the first round in favor of 8-6.

He second partial continued in the same tone, presenting the same twists and turns in the score, albeit at a higher level, reasserting himself in tiebreaker. case in which Kostyuk She was better and finished the fight with a 7-3 score against the athlete born in Delray Beach, Florida, 19 years ago.

Already in third and final roundthe panorama changed radically because in just a few minutes Gauff

threaded two breaks in a row and increased the score 4:0, practically dooming the fight.

He free level presented by both, which were far from ideal, are perfectly reflected in statisticsin which the North American finished with 17 winners and 51 unforced errorsand the European has 39 winning shots and 56 of her own errors.

It is worth recalling that the former world number one has a chain of joy against the Slovakian. Karolina Shmidlova (68th place), his compatriots Caroline Dohlheid (43°) and Alicia Parks (82°) and Polish Magdalena Frech (69°), all without giving up sets And losing only 16 games in total, on the way to the Oceanic Grand Slam.

Thus, the young woman who lifted her first trophy in Linz in 2019 and maintains her undefeated in 2024after initiation in Oakland, became second teenager in the 21st century to win his first 10 games in a calendar yearafter Belgian Justine Heninwho added 13 points with titles in Gold Coast, Canberra and reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open.

In the semi-finals, Gauff will meet the winner of the Belarusian fight Arina SabalenkoNo. 2 in the world and the defending champion, rivaling the one who dominates history with a 4–2 record, with the dedication at Flushing Meadows being his latest precedent, and the Czech Barbora Krejcikovaan opponent she lost to in her only match at Roland Garros 2021, when she was defeated 7–6 (6) to 6–3.

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