{"id":475998,"date":"2024-01-14T12:29:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T16:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475998"},"modified":"2024-01-14T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T14:34:10","slug":"sabalenka-needs-just-53-minutes-to-go-through-at-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sabalenka-needs-just-53-minutes-to-go-through-at-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka needs just 53 minutes to go through at Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka kicked off her title defense at the Australian Open for women with a convincing 6-0, 6-1 victory over German qualifier Ella Zaidel.<\/p>\n<p>The match lasted only 53 minutes and could have easily ended with a double bagel, but at 5-0 and 40-15 in the second set, Sabalenka missed two match points. Despite letting go of four more match points on her serve, she eventually sealed the match on her seventh opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian player delivered six aces and 20 winners, while Zaidel managed only four winners and failed to secure a single direct point from her initial shots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sabalenka storms through!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SabalenkaA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SabalenkaA<\/a> wraps up a straight sets win 6-0 6-1 to bring down the curtain on Day 1 on Rod Laver Arena.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a>\ud83d\udcf7 \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wwos<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@espn<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@eurosport<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wowowtennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wowowtennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AHNgMa0p0D\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AHNgMa0p0D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1746529425230119183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the second round, Sabalenka is set to face Czech player Brenda Fruhvirtova, who earlier today defeated Romania&#8217;s Ana Bogdan in three sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka kicked off her title defense at the Australian Open for women with a convincing 6-0, 6-1 victory over German qualifier Ella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":475999,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17471,5443],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18334,2469],"acf":{"announce":"The Belarusian let her opponent win just one game in their after-midnight clash in Melbourne","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\/475998"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476000,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475998\/revisions\/476000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475998"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475998"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}