Wimbledon winner Jelena Rybakina is reaching for her second Grand Slam tournament title. The 23-year-old Kazakh tennis player advanced to the final of the Australian Open with a 7: 6 (7: 4), 6: 3 against Viktoria Asarenka from Belarus.
In her first final at the Melbourne hard court tournament, the Moscow native, who has been playing for Kazakhstan since 2018, meets the winner of the second semi-final between Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and outsider Magda Linette from Poland on Saturday.
The 33-year-old Asarenka, who triumphed at the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013, kept up well with Rybakina, who was ten years younger, in the first set. But she made too many mistakes in the second round. Among others, football coach Thomas Tuchel and US entrepreneur Bill Gates sat in the stands of the Rod Laver Arena.
