{"id":476960,"date":"2024-01-27T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476960"},"modified":"2024-01-27T06:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T10:05:58","slug":"sabalenka-trashes-zheng-in-straight-sets-to-win-2024-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sabalenka-trashes-zheng-in-straight-sets-to-win-2024-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka trashes Zheng in straight sets to win 2024 Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka, world number 2, defeated world number 15, Qinwen Zheng, 2-0 sets, and won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Grand Slam of the year in Australia as that was her 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Australian Open trophy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ARYNA SABALENKA HAS DONE IT \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s won her second consecutive Grand Slam title after winning one in Australia last year \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SabalenkaA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SabalenkaA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThatsaW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ThatsaW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YvEVzg15ob\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YvEVzg15ob<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1751184448652017795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One break was enough for the Belarusian to win the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set as she converted 1 breakpoint from 4 opportunities. Her Chinese opponent had 3 chances to break her serve, but Aryna saved all of them.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, Sabalenka&#8217;s dominance was even greater as the world number 2 started the set with a break. Aryna broke Zheng\u2019s serve for a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time to make it 4-1, and the Belarusian closed the set 6-2 to win the match and the title in Australia for only 1 hour and 17 minutes on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka triumphed with the title without losing a set since the beginning of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2023 &#8211; Aryna Sabalenka has won her 12th hard court title and first since\u2026 the Australian Open 2023 &#8211; she had lost her three final on this surface in this span (Indian Wells, US Open 2023 and Brisbane 2024). Deliverance.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AustralianOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA_insider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTA_insider<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iUY2iBrApN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iUY2iBrApN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1751183819720511658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka, world number 2, defeated world number 15, Qinwen Zheng, 2-0 sets, and won the 1st Grand Slam of the year in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476961,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17471,5443,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18334,2469,22606,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Aryna triumphed with her 2nd Australian Open title in her career.","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\/476960"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476962,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476960\/revisions\/476962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476960"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476960"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}