In Austin, Ajla Tomljanovic’s winning week continued to win the thrilling quarter -finals and increased live ranks in the top 100 WTA.
Austin, Texas, USA, February 28, 2025 | Matt
Ajla Tomljanovic won two wins in the first career WTA title after winning the Texas Austin.
Tomljanovic led 5-2 in the third set and eventually needed eight games to conquer the endless Japanese qualifiers.
Shibahara, who was angry with Australia’s Kimberry Barrell in the previous round, pushed Tomljanovic to the final set tie brake before the end of the 7-5 3-6 7-6 (8) victory after two and a half hours of Tomljanovic.
Texas’ victory
@Ajlatom 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (8) win against Shibahara to reach the last 4 in Austin!
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She then faced the No.1 seed jessica pegula, who won the relatively unilateral quasi -final with Anna Blinkova and dropped only four games.
At the beginning of the event, Wild Card, Tomljanovic, was angry with seed Katie Volynets 7.
Tomljanovic (31 years old) advanced to the first WTA semi -finals since last year.
As a result, Austin’s result improves her ranking to the provisional position of the world No.93.
This means that Australia has four women in the top 100 at the top of the world.
Olivia Gadecki (now 98th) Olivia Gadecki will be the highest representative in the WTA TOP after October 2019 if the new ranking is officially released on Monday.
At that time, ASH Barty was the world’s No. 1, Tomljanovic was 51st, and Sam Stosur and Astra Sharma were 91 and 96, respectively.
The next Australian player outside the bracket, World No.121 Daria Saville, plays the quarter -finals at the WTA 500 tournament held on Saturday (AEDT) Merida.
She was in charge of the second seed Paula Badosa and put Spain on stage, she was able to rank in 110th place.
Australia’s preliminary Maya Joint, who went to Merida’s quarter -finals, fell into the semi -final set and fell to Elina Avanesyan 3 years old.
