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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nThe four-time major champion scored a 6-3, 6-4 win over the No.11 seed in one hour and 29 minutes to reach her third consecutive Brisbane final and stretch her personal winning streak at the event to nine and set a final with Marta Kostyuk. <\/p>\n
In Saturday\u2019s second semifinal, Kostyuk notched her third consecutive Top-10 win with a 6-0, 6-0 takedown of fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka clocked 31 winners and 18 unforced errors, while Muchova hit 18 winners and 15 unforced. The Belarusian saved all four break points she faced.<\/p>\n
Muchova tried to make it tricky for Sabalenka, and succeeded at times. She had a pair of break points to break for 5-3 in the second set but couldn\u2019t break through, then was broken in the next game.<\/p>\n
The Czech ended up dropping the final three games.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of close misses at the end of the second set, but super happy to close this match in straight sets,\u201d said the world No.1. \u201cShe\u2019s a great opponent. I knew that if I would give her that opportunity in that last game, she would take it, and then it would be a bit trickier for me to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, Sabalenka had nothing but praise for the Czech who is known worldwide for her effortless athleticism and free-flowing creativity.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s incredible,\u201d Sabalenka said of Muchova. \u201cThere were some points when she overplayed and played incredibly, so I had to just, yeah, applause for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI struggled against her a couple of times. I\u2019m happy that today I was focused from the beginning and I was able to show such a great tennis and put her under so much pressure and got the win in straight sets. That\u2019s just super great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sabalenka will face either Jessica Pegula or Marta Kostyuk in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n
She has won all eight sets she has played and dropped just 20 games in four matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m playing better and better,\u201d she opined. \u201cThat\u2019s really important tournament heading to Melbourne, to build that level, and to play some great matches against great opponents. So I\u2019m super happy with the performance so far and cannot wait to play my final match here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka lost to Karolina Muchova in a heartbreaking Roland-Garros semifinal in 2023, then lost another two three-setters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-403701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}