Magda Linette

After Iga Swiatek and Hubert Hurkacz lost on Sunday, can Magda Linette keep Polish tennis alive in singles at the Australian Open?

A similar perspective has served her well in Melbourne, where she's credited maturity and experience for her best-ever Grand Slam result. "She's so much ahead of me that I'm not really comparing myself in any way because it's just being too far away for now. She beat Jabeur in the first round of Roland Garros, and reached her fifth career WTA singles final in Chennai, India, in the fall. But she still had yet to earn that elusive berth in the last 16 at a major, despite achieving the feat of getting to Round 3 at all four events when she reached that round at the 2020 US Open. But Linette might be considered the proverbial 'late-bloomer' to some: The majority of her career success came after age 25. Beginner's Guide

Aryna Sabalenka won 7-5, 6-2 against Belinda Bencic; Karolína Plíšková and Donna Vekić also advanced. Linette produced a clinical display to beat fourth-seeded ...

"You just have to stay strong and believe, no matter what, and do everything you can to get back in the score and to win the match." Sabalenka has spoken about trying to be more "boring" on the court — or keeping her emotions in check — and did not drop her head when down a break early. "I knew it was going to be super tough and I'm glad that I stayed composed during the first set and managed to come back again."

First she reached the second week of a Grand Slam for the first time and now Magda Linette is into her first major quarter-final after upsetting Caroline ...

[Australian Open](https://www.tennis365.com/category/australian-open/) I don’t want to say I expected it because coming on the court I was confident in how well I’m playing, but obviously she’s such an amazing opponent. I don’t know what to say. Such a tough woman especially on the big stage. “I still can’t believe it really. [Live Tennis](https://www.tennis365.com/category/live-tennis/) [Tennis News](https://www.tennis365.com/category/tennis-news/) “I don’t really believe it,” the 30-year-old said during her on-court interview.

Linette, 30, had never before gone past the third round at the Australian Open in six previous attempts, but has now reached the quarterfinal.

We request you to support our award-winning journalism by making a financial contribution towards the Scroll Ground Reporting Fund. They each won titles in Adelaide this month, both were yet to drop a set in Melbourne before the last-16 showdown, and both were on seven-match unbeaten runs. Sabalenka and Bencic have both been on a roll this year in Australia and came into the first Grand Slam of the year as the form players. “I don’t really believe it,” she said. Sabalenka was troubled only once in the match, dropping her serve early in the first set to the Swiss 12th seed. But she started the first set well, breaking immediately, but the gritty Linette hung on and refused to lie down.

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“I was just getting too negative and too harsh on myself ’cause I feel I’m quite demanding,” Linette said. something I was not able to do.” “She was confident, probably (because of) the good wins she had the last couple of days, and she went for it ... Until last week, when she beat Mayar Sherif — all the way out on tiny Court 17 — in the first round, then a pair of seeded players, No. The other women left on their half of the bracket both made it to the quarterfinals at the Australian Open for the first time, No. But what she and her coaches knew was most important was to “grow up a little bit emotionally.” “But still, I don’t feel like this is a really bad loss. “Definitely today I felt like I couldn’t handle her power. It was taking me just too long to get over them,” she said. Open in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2021 and was a semifinalist at Melbourne Park in 2019. two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka, and reigning Wimbledon winner Elena Rybakina vs. Next up for Linette is a matchup against No.