Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka defeated China’s Qinwen Zheng to win the Australian Open – 2024-03-25 17:35:55

2024-03-25 17:35:55

Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, second in the WTA world ranking, won this Saturday the Australian Tennis Open, which is played in Melbourne, by beating China’s Qinwen Zheng (15th) 6-3 and 6-2 in 76 minutes of play and without giving up a set in the entire competition. Sabalenka, 25, She had already won in Melbourne last year by beating the Kazakh Elena Rybákina in the final By 4-6, 6-3 and 6-4, he won the match with remarkable forcefulness.

The only section in which Sabalenka “suffered” was to define the match and it was because her nerves played tricks on her and only in the fifth match point was she able to celebrate against a Zheng who had no chance of being able to break the 1.83 Belarusian meters.

???? The Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, second in the WTA world ranking, won the Australian Open, which is played in Melbourne, by beating the Chinese Qinwen Zheng (15th) 6-3 and 6-2 in 76 minutes of play and without giving up a set in the entire competitionpic.twitter.com/XsA9bajxq3

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Sabalenka reaffirms herself as one of the most consistent tennis players on the women’s circuit and he already has more than enough merit to rise again to the top after the ephemeral leadership he held between September and November 2023.

Poland’s Iga Swiatek is number one in the WTA with 9,770 points, followed by Sabalenka with 8,905 points.

Zheng, for her part, will now enter the top-10 thanks to the high level shown in the oceanic competition, trained by the Spanish Pere Riba, she will rise to seventh position, thus improving the 13th place that reflected her best mark so far.

Fuente: Telam