MELBOURNE (AUSTRALIA) (ITALPRESS) – Alexander Zverev accesses the Australian semi-final Open 2026. The number 3 of the world is not wrong and eliminates the surprise of the Learner Tien tournament (n.29 Atp): 6-3 6-7(5) 6-1 7-6(3), in three hours and 10 minutes of play the score in favor of the German, finalist in the last edition, which centered the tenth Major semi-final of the career. No breaks immediately and 24 ace thrown from Zverev, also thanks to a Rod Laver Arena with the roof closed due to the warm emergency in Melbourne, with temperatures at times over 40 degrees. “Tien from the background has played an incredible game and will be a player we will often see on these stages. I had seen him play Junior tournaments, but he has already improved a lot. I did my job in line, I think I have to improve in the first blows out of service”, the words of the 28-year-old Hamburg, who will play a place in the final with the winner of the challenge between the number one of the world Carlos Alcaraz and the landlord Alex de Minaur.
Aryna Sabalenka in great dust in the fourth final against Iva Jovic. The number one in the world beats the American with a score of 6-3 6-0 in an hour and a half. Finalist a year ago, the Belarusian conquered the fourth consecutive semifinal (14th in career) in Down Underland. “I’m very happy to have won in two sets and the level I played. I knew I had to get into the field and prove my level and my class. In the second set in particular I felt the need to put even more pressure on Jovic, the words of Sabalenka, who will face the winner of the match between Coco Gauff and Elina Svitolina. The Belarusian became the third player since 1988 to reach eight consecutive Major semi-finals on cement after Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis. Sabalenka flies to the semifinals in Melbourne without losing a serial number one set of the board: is the third to succeed in the last ten years after Serena Williams (2016) and Ashleigh Barty (2022).
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