US tennis star Serena Williams awards at the Australian Open against the Czech Karolina Pliskova four match balls, but also has bad luck. For the first time in 25 years, a Japanese girl is in the semi-finals of Melbourne.
What an unfortunate for Serena Williams at the Australian Open: in The first of four match-balls against the Czech Karolina Pliskova, US-American, twisted with the left foot, and lost in spite of a 5:1 lead with 4:6, 6:4 and 5:7. Another Tennis record remains so for the time being, denied. With a final win in Melbourne, it would be 24. Grand-Slam-title have been, could have set the Australian record the Australian Margaret Court
“Something like this happens only once in a lifetime”
To your injury, Williams did not want to push the defeat then. “I think she just played well. This has nothing to do with my ankle,” Williams said. “I’ve got balls made in the match, nothing wrong. She has played the best Tennis of your life.” The former US Open semi-finalist Pliskova showed after the match ball, surprised. “Actually, I was almost in the locker room, and now I’m standing here as the winner”, say the 26-Year-old. “Something like this happens maybe once in a lifetime.”
Shake hands after the Match, Williams shows himself as a fair loser
One and a half sentences long Pliskova looked like the winner, in the second sentence of the until then strong charge in the end was the Czech Republic after a Break 3:2 in the front. Then Williams managed to turn the tide. “She went to the balls and was aggressive, I was passive,” admitted Pliskova. When the score was 5:1 Serena Williams had her first match ball. In doing so, they buckled with the left foot, as she changed the direction, and not moved afterwards, as usual. When the score was 5:4, you still had three more chances to win, but could not use that as well. Pliskova was a little later, 6:5 in the front, with a private Service, she finished in third match point after 2:10 hours of memorable game.
Also, Osaka in the round of the best Four
In her first Australian Open semi-finals Pliskova will now face US Open champion Naomi Osaka , who won her quarter-final 6:4, 6:1 against Jelina Switolina from the Ukraine and, as the first Japanese woman for 25 years, the semi-final round reached in Melbourne. “It is dangerous, but there is no one who is as dangerous as Serena,” said Pliskova your next opponent. In the other semi-final, the Czech player Petra Kvitova, and surprisingly, the American other-American Danielle Collins. Collins had in the first round to Angelique Kerber out of the tournament in Osaka, thrown, Kvitova and Pliskova have the Chance to after the tournament, the new number one in the world ranking list, since the Romanian Simona Halep will lose the top position according to their eighth-final against Serena Williams.
Zverev-conqueror Raonic out
Lucas Pouille is in the semi-finals
In the competition, the men’s Lucas Pouille reached surprisingly the semi-finals. The No. 28 seeded Frenchman won against the canadian Milos Raonic in four sets 7:6, 6:3, 6:7, 6:4. Raonic had thrown in the first round to Alexander Zverev from the race. In the penultimate round Pouille hits on the world ranking list Novak Djokovic from Serbia, which benefited from a violation of the Japanese Kei Nishikori, and this is the seventh Time in the semi-finals in Melbourne achieved. Djokovic led 6:1, 4:1, before his opponent gave up due to a Thigh problem.
The Serb division to force for the Match on Friday against Frenchman Lucas Pouille. Pouille (24), is trained by two-time Grand Slam winner Amelie Mauresmo (Melbourne and Wimbledon in 2006), had won its five previous part, not a single Match in the Australian Open. Djokovic has six titles in Melbourne, together with the already-eliminated Switzerland’s Roger Federer, the record-breaking winner. The other semi-final, the Spaniard Rafael Nadal and the Greek shooting star Stefanos Tsitsipas riding.
sn/asz (dpa, sid)