Dayana Yastremskaya continues to confidently walk through the tournament bracket of the Australian Open.
Dayana Yastremskaya became the co-author of a unique victory in Grand Slam tournaments. Let us remind you that now the Ukrainian has reached the quarterfinals of the competition.
To do this, she has to beat former world number one Victoria Azarenka. So, our tennis player, who started the tournament from the qualification, has already won seven matches in a row.
Among the losers today are two former winners of Grand Slam tournaments (Marketa Vondrousova and Victoria Azarenka). Thus, Dayana became the first qualified tennis player since 1999 to do so.
25 years ago, Australian Jelena Dokic achieved this feat. At Wimbledon, the then 16-year-old tennis player defeated Mary Pierce and Martina Hingis.
2 – Dayana Yastremska is the second qualifier in the Open Era to defeat two former Grand Slam champions in a Women’s Singles Major event after Jelena Dokic at Wimbledon 1999 (vs Martina Hingis and Mary Pierce). Explaining.#ausopen | @AustralianOpen @WTA @WTA_insider pic.twitter.com/5jwD6bYwWn
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