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Arina Sabalenka

Arina Sabalenka (2nd place, Belarus) and Jeong Chin-won (15th place, China) in the women's singles final of the Australian Open tennis tournament (total prize money of 86.5 million Australian dollars, about 76.1 billion won) face off against each other

Sabalenka, the winner of this tournament last year, defeated Coco Goff (4th place, USA) 2-0 (7-6 <7-2> 6-4) in the women's singles semifinals on the 12th day of the tournament held in Melbourne, Australia on the 25th. .

In the match that followed, Chin-Won Jeong defeated Dayana Yastremska (93rd place, Ukraine) 2-0 (6-4 6-4).

The women's singles final between Sabalenka and Chung Chin-won will be held on the 27th.The two met once in the quarterfinals of the US Open last year, where Sabalenka won 2-0 (6-1 6-4).

Sabalenka became the first player in seven years to advance to the Australian Open women's singles final for two consecutive years since Serena Williams (retired, USA) in 2016 and 2017.

The last woman to win two consecutive women's singles titles in this tournament was Viktoria Azaranka (22nd, Belarus) in 2012 and 2013.

This is the third time Sabalenka has reached the singles final at a major tournament.

In last year's Australian Open final, she defeated Elena Rybakina (3rd place, Kazakhstan) 2-1 (4-6 6-3 6-4) to win her first major title, and in last year's US Open final, she defeated Goff 1-2 (1-2). They lost 6-2 3-6 2-6).

Sabalenka, who avenged her loss to Goff in the US Open finals last year, improved her record against Goff to 3 wins and 4 losses.

Sabalenka led the first set with a score of 5-2, but lost four games and was dragged into a tiebreak. Sabalenka took the early lead with a 4-0 score in the tiebreak and won the first set.

In the second set, the match was tightly tied at 4-4, but he broke Goff's serve game and drove Goff into a corner.

Sabalenka was pushed to deuce during her serve game, which started with a 5-4 lead, but she took the match point with a serve ace that struck the center of the court, and with another serve point following a strong serve, she secured the finals in 1 hour and 42 minutes. did.

Jeong Chin-won

In the following match, Chung Chin-won defeated Yastremska, who had advanced from the preliminaries to the semifinals of the finals and brought hope to Ukraine at war, in 1 hour and 42 minutes.

Jastremska took the lead in the first set with a game score of 2-0, but missed the opportunity to advance 3-0 by recording four double faults in her subsequent serve game.

In the end, during the first set, Yastremska called a medical timeout and felt unwell, and control of the game passed to Chung Chin-won.

Chin-Won Jeong advanced to the singles finals of a major tournament for the first time in his life.Her previous best result in a major was the quarterfinals at last year's US Open.

Zheng Qinwen is the first Chinese player to reach the singles final of a major tournament in 10 years since Li Na, winner of the 2014 Australian Open.

Lina advanced to the singles finals of major tournaments four times, including runner-up at the 2011 and 2013 Australian Open and winner of the 2011 French Open. 섯다