Naomi Osaka crowned Australian Open 2021 women's champion
February 20, 2021 16:25 ISTNaomi Osaka wins her second Australian Open and fourth Grand Slam title as the World No. 3 gallops Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-3 in the title clash.
Naomi Osaka wins her second Australian Open and fourth Grand Slam title as the World No. 3 gallops Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-3 in the title clash.
The Indian tennis star tipped Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic to claim the women's and men's singles titles respectively in Melbourne.
Medvedev reached his first Australian Open final on Friday after beating Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 and will be facing Djokovic in the final.
Medvedev will face eight-time champion Novak Djokovic at Melbourne Park for the title on Sunday.
Mertens of Belgium and Sabalenka of Belarus had a 6-2, 6-3 win over the third-seeded Czech team of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova.
Raina and her partner Kamilla Rakhimova beat Russia's Anna Blinkova and Anastasia Potapova 2-6, 6-4, 10-7 in the final.
The Seven-time Formula One champion said that he is only proud of Serena, who fought on the day like a champion she always is.
The top-ranked Djokovic is 8-0 in his previous trips to the final at Melbourne Park. He is also unbeaten in all nine semifinals he has contested in Australia.
The second men’s semifinal features a look at the future of the sport: 22-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas against 25-year-old Daniil Medvedev.
The defeat to Naomi Osaka in semi-final ended her bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title and her second consecutive semi-final exit in a major tournament.
The last year's US Open semi-finalist defeated her Czech rival 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in a hard-fought battle; will face off Naomi Osaka in the final.
The World No. 3 Japanese makes a light work of the 23-time Grand Slam-winning veteran in a one-sided semi-final 6-3, 6-4.
Naomi Osaka has won 19 consecutive matches but none of those wins came against Serena Williams.
It is only the second time in Nadal’s career he has lost a Grand Slam match after taking the opening two sets.
72 Australian Open entrants were forced into a two-week hard quarantine and Brady is the only one who made it all the way to the singles semifinals at Melbourne Park.
Tsitsipas grabbed the third set in a tiebreaker with the help of some uncharacteristic mistakes by Nadal.
Australia’s second-largest city will relax its third lockdown at midnight Wednesday after authorities contained the spread of a COVID-19 cluster centered on hotel quarantine.
Medvedev is into the semifinals of a major for the third time. He will next play either 20-time major winner Rafael Nadal or No. 5-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Barty lost the match 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 as Muchova continued taking down higher-ranked opponents.
Those matches will be played in the grandstand, which seats 5,000, meaning crowds there will be limited to 15% of capacity because of COVID-19 restrictions.
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