{"id":419936,"date":"2026-01-19T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:23:08","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-vs-zhuoxuan-bai-preview-prediction-2026-australian-open-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419936\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka vs Zhuoxuan Bai Preview &#038; Prediction | 2026 Australian Open | Second Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestatszone.com\/betting-tips\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for today\u2019s sports betting tips from our expert analysts!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka faces Zhuoxuan Bai in the second-round of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>Start date\/time:<\/p>\n<p>Venue:\u00a0Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia<\/p>\n<p>Surface: Outdoor hard<\/p>\n<p>How to watch on TV:\u00a0UK \u2013 TNT Sports \/ USA \u2013 ESPN<\/p>\n<p>How to watch online:\u00a0UK \u2013 discovery+ \/ USA \u2013 ESPN+ &amp; Tennis Channel<\/p>\n<p>Tickets:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/ticket-info\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visit this link for the latest Aryna Sabalenka vs Zhuoxuan Bai ticket information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka vs Zhuoxuan Bai prediction<\/p>\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka began her Australian Open campaign with a straight sets win over Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah. The 20-year-old frustrated the world number one at times in the first set, even breaking Sabalenka in the very first game of the match, but the four-time Grand Slam champion got the all-important break in the 10th service game to go in front, before dominating the second to win 6-4 6-1. Sabalenka is aiming for a fourth straight Australian Open final.<\/p>\n<p>Zhuoxuan Bai is her second-round opponent. Bai picked up a win on her Grand Slam main draw debut after a dramatic victory over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The first two sets were exchanged and the decider went all the way to a tiebreak. Bai saved a match point and reeled off the last three points to win 6-4 2-6 7-6 (10) after two hours and 43 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka has now found her footing in the tournament and is likely to dominate her opponent from the off here.<\/p>\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka vs Zhuoxuan Bai tip:\u00a0Under 19.5 games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click here for today\u2019s sports betting tips from our expert analysts! Aryna Sabalenka faces Zhuoxuan Bai in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-419936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}