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The reigning Australian Open champion has had a good start to the season after crushing her opponents in her first two matches in Brisbane. In the first round, Sabalenka defeated Italian Lucia Bronzetti 6-3, 6-0, and in the second round she even more confidently defeated Zhu Lin from China, giving her only one game in the entire match – 6- 1, 6-0. .
Two shots in two opening matches show that Sabalenka has entered the season well and is determined to immediately win the title, but in the quarterfinals she faces a serious opponent in the person of Daria Kasatkina, and beat the tennis player Russian is not an easy task. stain.
Kasatkina, like Sabalenka, had an excellent start to the season, winning her first two matches in Brisbane against Marta Kostyuk and Magda Linette in straight sets. The Russian looked solid in both matches. She beat the Ukrainian 6-3, 6-4 and the Pole 6-4, 6-2.
The winner of this match will meet Victoria Azarenka, who beat Latvian Jelena Ostapenko in the quarterfinals. And in the final, the opponent will be Elena Rybakina or the winner of the duo Mirra Andreeva / Linda Noskova.
Sabalenka and Kasatkina have met seven times in total, with the Belarusian leading the encounters with a score of 5-2. They played for the first time in 2019 at the China Open in Beijing, the match was won by Kasatkina. Since then, Sabalenka has won five of her next six matches.
Tennis. WTA. Brisbane. Quarter-finals. Sabalenko – Kasatkina. Direct
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