![]() ![]() “When I was younger, it came off as kind of a bad attitude. For three minutes, her play was less than ideal. Add it up, and Pegula got broken there, her lead in the second set shrinking to 4-2. She sent a backhand long to end an 11-stroke exchange. Well, the 28-year-old from New York was cruising along, having won 10 of the first 11 games and serving with a 30-love lead, when she stumbled ever so slightly, ever so briefly. “I was annoyed,” Pegula said after the 65-minute contest. And so she gave herself a bit of a hard time about what happened late in the second set of her 6-0, 6-2 victory over Marta Kostyuk. Zhu Lin.Īs well as Pegula is playing, dropping zero sets and just 11 games total along the way to Week 2, you might think she’d be completely pleased with how things are going.Īh, but Pegula is a self-described perfectionist. ![]() Jelena Ostapenko, and Victoria Azarenka vs. The women’s upcoming fourth-round matches: Iga Swiatek vs. That day’s other men’s matches: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. To reach his first Slam quarterfinal, Korda will need to defeat No. I stuck with it, even when I was going up and down with the emotions,” Korda said. He compiled nearly twice as many winners as Medvedev, 50-28, and won the point on 75% of his trips to the net, 36 of 48. He even threw in the occasional drop shot, for good measure. On this night in Rod Laver Arena, it was Korda who dictated most of the points, who put his shots right where he wanted them, who charged forward with verve and slick volleys. Open two years ago and made it to the final in Australia in 2021, when he lost to Novak Djokovic, and 2022, when he lost to Nadal after holding a two-set lead. Just have fun, enjoy it - good things will happen.” Now (I’m) just getting the right people around me, building a really solid team, just trusting the process,” said the 29th-seeded Korda, who was the 2018 junior champion in Australia. “I always was told how good of a tennis player I can be. ![]()
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