Vondroušová did not hold the lead against Sabalenková and did not repeat the eighth finals at the Australian Open

Markéta Vondroušová in the first two rounds she managed in two sets with the domestic wild card Priscilla Honová and the Russian Ljudmila Samsonová and she started well today against the world number two Aryně Sabalenková.

Silver medalist Vondroušová benefited from her opponent’s mistakes in the first set of the match played in the tiring heat in the Margaret Court Arena. Although she has not yet maintained the 3-1 lead, she has already delivered the set after another break.

However, since the second set, she has not spoiled Belarus so much and covered the Czech left with the help of loud screams with her blows. The second set was decided by a single loss of Vondroušová’s serve from the second game, and in the third act Vondroušová did not even play a game from 1-0.

Vondroušová played a year older Sabalenková fifth match and lost for the third time in a row.

The finalist of the French Open 2019 in Melbourne did not match her best result from last year, when she lost the round of 16 to Su-Wei Hsieh. The Australian Open for the 22-year-old native of Sokolov has definitely ended, in the doubles with Tereza Martincová they were eliminated yesterday in the second round.

Of the Czech representatives, only Barbora Krejčíková, who has already she defeated yesterday Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenkova and is preparing for tomorrow’s duel with two-time Belarusian champion Victoria Azarenkova.

Although Sabalenková cut ten or more double errors in the seventh match in a row (today 10 and 80 in five matches this year), she gradually found herself against Vondroušová in the service and in Melbourne for the third time she managed to turn the unfavorable development from 0-1 to sets. By advancing to the round of 16, she equaled her maximum from last year.

For the first quarterfinals of the Australian Open, the 23-year-old native of Minsk will play with Kaiou Kanepiovou (h2h 0-1), which lost in three sets in a single duel last year in Melbourne at WTA 250.

Estonka Kanepi, a former 15-time player and currently the 115th player in the world, competes in the Australian Open main event for the thirteenth time in her career and did not advance to the round of 16 for the first time at the age of 36. At the same time, she was always twice in the quarterfinals at other grand slams.

This year in Melbourne Kanepiová, after two hundred wins over former champion German Angelique Kerber and Czech Maria Bouzkova, turned unfavorable development against the home Maddison Inglisovéwho arrived in the canary today.

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