Australian Storm Hunter advances to the Australian Open 2024 ladies’s doubles semifinals alongside Czech companion Katerina Siniakova.
Melbourne, Australia, 24 January 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Storm Hunter and Czech companion Katerina Siniakova have staged a steely comeback to maintain their Australian Open desires alive.
The third seeds regarded in hassle after they fell behind 1-4 within the deciding set of their quarterfinal showdown with Czech Barbora Krejcikova and German Laura Siegemund.
Nonetheless, they managed to reel off 5 consecutive video games to triumph 4-6 7-5 6-4 at Margaret Court docket Area this afternoon.
“Once we had been down a break within the third we simply thought ‘let’s preserve going, preserve going’,” Hunter stated.
“And we by some means acquired the win, which is wonderful.
“That was a really, very robust match. Credit score to Barbora and Laura, they performed very well. We actually needed to dig deep, belief one another and battle actually laborious.”
This propels 29-year-old Hunter into her first ladies’s doubles semifinal on the Australian Open.
The world No.1 joins unique firm as solely the eighth Australian to achieve an Australian Open ladies’s doubles semifinal in Melbourne Park’s 36-year historical past.
| Australian Open ladies’s doubles Aussie semifinalists at Melbourne Park (since 1988) |
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| Participant | Yr |
| Wendy Turnbull | 1988 |
| Liz Smylie | 1988, 1993, 1994 |
| Rennae Stubbs | 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2010 |
| Alicia Molik | 2005 |
| Sam Stosur | 2006, 2007, 2019 |
| Casey Dellacqua | 2009, 2013 |
| Ash Barty | 2013 |
| Storm Hunter | 2024 |
Hunter and Siniakova will face world No.2 Elise Mertens, Hunter’s former companion, and world No.6 Hsieh Su-wei within the semifinals.
“(We’re) so completely happy we get to play one other match, we didn’t wish to go house but,” Hunter stated.
In addition to competing for a spot within the Australian Open remaining, Hunter must defeat Mertens to carry onto her world No.1 rating.
In combined doubles motion, the successful run of two Aussie wildcard pairs got here to an finish within the semifinals.
Olivia Gadecki and Marc Polmans bowed out in opposition to American Desirae Krawczyk and Brit Neal Skupski, whereas Jaimee Fourlis and Andrew Harris misplaced to Chinese language Taipei’s Hsieh Su-wei and Poland’s Jan Zielinski.
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TODAY’S RESULTS
Ladies’s doubles, quarterfinals
[3] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) d [5] Barbora Krejcikova (CZE)/Laura Siegemund (GER) 4-6 7-5 6-4
Combined doubles, semifinals
[2] Desirae Krawczyk (USA)/Neal Skupski (GBR) d [WC] Olivia Gadecki (AUS)/Marc Polmans (AUS) 6-4 6-1
[3] Hsieh Su-wei (TPE)/Jan Zielinski (POL) d [WC] Jaimee Fourlis (AUS)/Andrew Harris (AUS) 7-6(8) 6-2
COMING UP
Ladies’s doubles, semifinals
[3] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) v [2] Hsieh Su-wei (TPE)/Elise Mertens (BEL)
> VIEW: Australian Open 2024 ladies’s doubles draw
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