Ajla Tomljanovic’s profitable week in Austin continues, with the Aussie profitable an exhilarating quarterfinal and boosting her stay rating properly contained in the WTA prime 100.
Austin, TX, United States, 28 February 2025 | Matt Trollope
Ajla Tomljanovic stands simply two wins from her first profession WTA title after profitable a dramatic quarterfinal in Austin, Texas.
Tomljanovic led 5-2 within the third set and finally required eight match factors to finally subdue relentless Japanese qualifier Ena Shibahara.
Shibahara, who upset Australian Kimberly Birrell within the earlier spherical, pushed Tomljanovic to a final-set tiebreak earlier than Tomljanovic closed out a 7-5 3-6 7-6(8) victory after greater than two-and-a-half hours.
Triumphant in Texas ☀️
@Ajlatom delivers a 7-5, 3-6, 7-6(8) win over Shibahara to succeed in the ultimate 4 in Austin!
#ATXOpen pic.twitter.com/pMcn8PVZsW— wta (@WTA) February 28, 2025
She subsequent faces No.1 seed Jessica Pegula, who gained a relatively one-sided quarterfinal over Anna Blinkova, dropping simply 4 video games.
Tomljanovic, a wildcard, earlier within the occasion upset No.7 seed Katie Volynets earlier than a fast-finishing three-set win over Jodie Burrage, who ended Petra Kvitova’s comeback within the first spherical.
Tomljanovic, 31, is thru to her first WTA semifinal since Birmingham in June final 12 months, per week she went on to make the ultimate.
The end in Austin boosts her rating to a provisional place of world No.93.
Which means, in accordance with the stay rankings, Australia now has 4 ladies contained in the world’s prime 100.
Ought to Olivia Gadecki – present stay rating of 98th – stay there when the brand new rankings are formally launched on Monday, Australia would have the very best illustration contained in the WTA prime 100 since October 2019.
Again then, Ash Barty was the world No.1, Tomljanovic was ranked No.51, and Sam Stosur and Astra Sharma had been 91st and 96th respectively.
The following Australian participant exterior that bracket, world No.121 Daria Saville, performs her quarterfinal on the WTA 500 match in Merida in a while Saturday (AEDT).
She takes on second seed Paula Badosa, and may she upstage the Spaniard, she might enhance her rating again inside the highest 110.
Fellow Australian qualifier Maya Joint, who additionally progressed to the quarterfinals in Merida, got here inside a set of the semifinals earlier than falling in three to Elina Avanesyan.
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