{"id":436957,"date":"2026-01-29T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436957\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:03:09","slug":"australian-open-as-it-happened-womens-final-locked-in-djokovic-unhappy-with-reporters-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436957\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open as it happened: Women’s final locked in; Djokovic unhappy with reporter’s question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 29, 2026, 07:16 AM ET<\/p>\n

MELBOURNE, Australia — The 2026 Australian Open women’s final is set after two-time champion at Melbourne Park, Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> raced past Ukrainian 12th-seed Elina Svitolina<\/a> in the first semifinal, before American Jessica Pegula<\/a> fell just short against fifth-ranked Elena Rybakina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic<\/a> was gifted a pass into the semifinals, after Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> retired hurt from their clash while he was two sets up in their quarterfinal. Djokovic will play world No. 2 Jannik Sinner<\/a> for a place in Sunday’s final. The other men’s semifinal features top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Alexander Zverev<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The debate surrounding player privacy also continues to rage on in the wake of world No. 3 Coco Gauff<\/a>‘s racket-smashing fit in the aftermath of her quarterfinal loss to Svitolina.<\/p>\n

Catch up on the latest news, results, stats, and happenings from Melbourne Park on women’s semifinal night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 29, 2026, 07:16 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The 2026 Australian Open women’s final is set after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-436957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}