Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, seeded 12th, set up a quarter-final with world number three Coco Cauff following her 6-2 6-4 victory over Russian eighth seed Mirra Andreeva. <\/p>\n
Svitolina felt she had to “fight until the very last point” in a “nerve-wracking” match, although she dominated the key moments. <\/p>\n
The 31-year-old broke Andreeva’s serve in three consecutive games in the opening set and also saved seven break points from a possible nine, including three in the second set, to avoid conceding a double-break.<\/p>\n
Svitolina, a four-time quarter-finalist at the Australian Open, is on a nine-match winning streak in 2026 and has dropped six games or fewer in three of her four matches in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Gauff made it safely through to the quarter-finals in Melbourne for a third successive year with a resilient win over Czech 19th seed Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n
The world number three raced through the first set, but Muchova pulled back in the second before Gauff held her nerve to serve out the 6-1 3-6 6-3 victory on her fourth match point.<\/p>\n
Gauff, a two-time major champion, has gone on to win all four tournaments in which she has faced Muchova – including the 2023 US Open.<\/p>\n
However, she has never reached the final at Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Speaking after her win, Gauff credited her run to the last eight to “trusting myself”.<\/p>\n
“My history has been tough with the serve but I think today was great, there was one loose serve in the second set but after that it was pretty good,” she said.<\/p>\n
“That’s the biggest thing, just trusting myself and knowing that I’ve put in the work in practice and knowing it will show up in the matches.<\/p>\n
Gauff then wrote “confidence is the key” on a camera lens after the victory, which improved her head-to-head record with Muchova to 5-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, seeded 12th, set up a quarter-final with world number three Coco Cauff following her 6-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-263298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}