{"id":395784,"date":"2023-01-24T05:52:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T10:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395784"},"modified":"2023-01-24T05:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T10:54:01","slug":"azarenka-sets-up-semi-final-clash-with-wimbledon-champion-rybakina","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/azarenka-sets-up-semi-final-clash-with-wimbledon-champion-rybakina\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon champion Rybakina sets up semi-final clash with Azarenka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina became the first player into the Australian Open semi-finals after outmuscling Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 6-4 in a one-sided contest on Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Done in two \u2705\u2705<\/p>\n<p>Elena could not be Ryba-keener to be into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AO2023<\/a> semifinals \u270a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BYpHgV7Vha\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BYpHgV7Vha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1617728552325251073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think of course I got all the experience at Wimbledon and it&#8217;s helping me now this time here in Australia and I know what to expect,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region \" data-interscroller=\"true\" data-format=\"floated-mpu\" data-role=\"sticky-region\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-layout\" data-interscroller-label=\"Scroll for more\" data-init=\"true\" data-advert-rendered=\"300x337\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__target\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__mask\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__content\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-au site-component-vertical-margin\" data-ad-format=\"mpu\" data-type=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-advert-rendered=\"300x337\">&#8220;I already did it once and, of course, I got confident that I can do it again. I did really good preparation with the team. I&#8217;m not really surprised with the results. I&#8217;m happy. I&#8217;m just hungry to work and improve more.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Russian-born Kazakh will meet two-time champion Victoria Azarenka for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-395785 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/azarenka.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Belarus&#8217;s Azarenka rolled back the years at the Australian Open and crushed third seed Jessica Pegula 6-4 6-1 to reach the semi-finals and remain on course for her third Grand Slam crown.<\/p>\n<p>The win marked the first time in a decade that Azarenka had made it to the last-four at Melbourne Park and she will make her first appearance in a major semi-final since the US Open in 2020 where she went on to lose in the title clash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, it hurts to beat her because I always want her to do well, but the same time I know I have to play my best tennis,&#8221; 33-year-old Azarenka said of her friend and practice partner Pegula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina became the first player into the Australian Open semi-finals after outmuscling Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 6-4 in a one-sided contest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395786,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[5443,17222,17234],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Belarusian reached the last four at the Australian Open for the first time in 10 years","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395784"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395784"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}