The bandana-wearing 21-year-old reached the third round at Melbourne Park last year, while Krejcikova \u2013 on the comeback from injury \u2013 has twice reached the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Projected match-ups\u00a0<\/p>\n
Arguably the biggest possible clash of the first week could come to pass if top seed Sabalenka runs into 2021 US Open winner Raducanu.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka leads the ledger 3-0 but only narrowly snuck through in their most recent meeting in Cincinnati last year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Following the disappointment of a narrow semifinal defeat to eventual champion Keys last year<\/a>, Swiatek could find the second week tough going early in a potential fourth round against two-time champion Naomi Osaka<\/a>, a player she owns a 2-1 record against.<\/p>\n After a barnstorming run to the final in Brisbane last week<\/a>, including beating three top-10 players in succession, 20th seed Marta Kostyuk<\/a> could pose a fourth-round obstacle to seventh seed Paolini, but she would first need to overcome a 0-2 record against 11th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a> in the third round.<\/p>\n Should Anisimova pass a projected third-round test against AO 2020 champion Sofia Kenin<\/a>, she could run into heavy-striking 13th seed Linda Noskova<\/a>, the Czech who toppled top seed Swiatek in the third round two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bandana-wearing 21-year-old reached the third round at Melbourne Park last year, while Krejcikova \u2013 on the comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-414792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414792","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=414792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}