{"id":443281,"date":"2026-01-28T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443281\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:35:09","slug":"anna-danilina-18-advances-to-australian-open-doubles-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443281\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Danilina &#8217;18 Advances to Australian Open Doubles Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Florida Women&#8217;s Tennis alumna Anna Danilina and her doubles partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/players\/316344\/aleksandra-krunic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandra Krunic<\/a>, are headed to the Australian Open Doubles Semifinals following a 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 victory over the top-seeded duo of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/czech-republic\/katerina-siniakova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katerina\u00a0Siniakova<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/united-states-america\/taylor-townsend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Townsend<\/a>. Siniakova and Townsend won the 2025 Australian Open Doubles Championship, and were ranked number one in the world entering the tournament.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDanilina and Krunic will square off against the five seed <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/brazil\/luisa-stefani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luisa Stefani<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/canada\/gabriela-dabrowski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriela Dabrowski<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/match\/2026-anna-danilina-aleksandra-krunic-vs-gabriela-dabrowski-luisa-stefani-wd501\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday, Jan. 28<\/a>. A win in the semifinals would put Danilina in the Australian Open Finals for the second time in her career. In 2022, she teamed with <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/brazil\/beatriz-haddad-maia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beatriz Haddad Maia<\/a> against <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/czechia\/barbora-krejcikova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barbora Krejcikova<\/a> and Siniakova, but dropped a tight three-set decision 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-4.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 2017 NCAA Champion was also competing in Mixed Doubles at the Open, advancing all the way to the quarterfinals with partner <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/united-states-america\/jj-tracy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Tracy<\/a>\u00a0before falling to Stefani and <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/el-salvador\/marcelo-arevalo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcelo Arevalo<\/a> 2-6, 6-4 [10-7].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Florida Women&#8217;s Tennis alumna Anna Danilina and her doubles partner, Aleksandra Krunic, are headed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-443281","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\/443281","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=443281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}