{"id":21641,"date":"2024-01-24T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/21641\/dayana-yastremska-zheng-qinwen-in\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:55:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:55:54","slug":"dayana-yastremska-zheng-qinwen-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=21641","title":{"rendered":"Dayana Yastremska, Zheng Qinwen in 1st Slam semis at Aussie Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dayana Yastremska, Zheng Qinwen in 1st Slam semis at Aussie Open\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dayana Yastremska and Zheng Qinwen both earned places in their first Grand Slam singles semifinals, with Yastremska cruising to a straight-sets victory and Zheng recovering from a slow start.<\/p>\n<p>Yastremska, the 93rd-ranked Ukrainian who was expected to advance to the main draw, earned a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Linda Noskova in 78 minutes.  She is only the second qualifier to reach the women&#39;s singles semi-finals at the Australian Open in the Open era, after Christine Matison in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good to go down in history because at that time I wasn\u2019t born, I\u2019m 2,000 years old,\u201d she said.  \u201cI\u2019m super happy, very tired.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Noskova beat No. 1 Iga Swiatek en route to the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/quarterfinals\/\"   title=\"quarterfinals\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">quarterfinals<\/a> and struck first against Yastremska, taking a 2-1 lead in the opening set.<\/p>\n<p>But Yastremska reacted immediately and from that moment Noskova always caught up.  The Ukrainian broke again to lead 5-2 and served for the set.  A break, in the seventh game of the second, was enough to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a little nervous, but at the same time tired. I think I was a little too emotional,&#8221; Yastremska said.  &#8220;Before my match, I was angry with the training [with] my trainer.  But that&#39;s okay, because I could put my emotions aside.  Yeah, another step has been taken.<\/p>\n<p>After losing the first set, Zheng, seeded 12th, was able to outclass Russian Anna Kalinskaya for a 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Kalinskaya, playing in her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, provided the match&#39;s opening break with a double fault, but Zheng immediately returned the favor and the pair were locked until the tiebreak after more shaky performances in the service.<\/p>\n<p>Zheng, who reached the quarterfinals of the US Open last year, came under pressure when she hit a forehand wide to give Kalinskaya two chances to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> the first set, and the Russian finished with a big backhand.<\/p>\n<p>Zheng then trailed 3-2 in the second set before winning 10 of the next 11 games.  After Kalinskaya held her serve to open the third, Zheng won 12 straight points.  She led 4-1 when Kalinskaya needed a medical timeout to treat her right leg and returned to finish the match quickly after the break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really excited. It&#39;s the first time for me,&#8221; said Zheng, who will enter the top 10 after the Australian Open.  \u201cReally happy to be in the semi-final, especially with such a good performance like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and US Open winner Coco Gauff will also play Thursday for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dayana Yastremska, Zheng Qinwen in 1st Slam semis at Aussie Open\u060c Dayana Yastremska and Zheng Qinwen both earned places in their first Grand Slam singles semifinals, with Yastremska cruising to a straight-sets victory and Zheng recovering from a slow start. Yastremska, the 93rd-ranked Ukrainian who was expected to advance to the main draw, earned a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4048,799,9686,64,9689,1370,9410,9687,9688],"class_list":["post-21641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-1st","tag-aussie","tag-dayana","tag-open","tag-qinwen","tag-semis","tag-slam","tag-yastremska","tag-zheng"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21643,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions\/21643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}