Olivia Gadecki stuns world No.11 Danielle Collins within the second spherical at a WTA 500 event in Mexico.
Guadalajara, Mexico, 12 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Olivia Gadecki is having fun with a breakout run at a WTA 500 event in Guadalajara, the place she has scored a string of spectacular upsets to advance to her first tour-level quarterfinal.
The 22-year-old from the Gold Coast defeated Hungarian Timea Babos, a former world No.25, and rising Australian Maya Joint, the world No.111, to qualify with out dropping a set.
Gadecki then continued her profitable run in the principle draw, beating former world No.3 Sloane Stephens within the opening spherical.
The world No.152’s rising confidence was on present in the present day in a second-round conflict with the event’s second seed, world No.11 Danielle Collins.
Gadecki dismissed the American in 84 minutes, powering to a 6-3 6-3 victory.
Using the wave 🌊
Olivia Gadecki is into her FIRST ever Hologic WTA quarterfinal!#GDLOpenAKRONxSantander pic.twitter.com/Z8ONVJ0Fta
— wta (@WTA) September 12, 2024
That is Gadecki’s second profession top-20 win and first since February 2021.
It additionally marks the primary time that the Gold Coast expertise has scored back-to-back top-100 wins in her profession.
“I’m actually happy with myself for giving myself the possibility to play one other match and play such wonderful gamers and actually check my talents,” an elated Gadecki stated in her on-match interview.
Along with her performances this week, Gadecki is projected to interrupt into the world’s high 120 and will nonetheless climb increased if her profitable run continues on the Mexican hard-court occasion.
Gadecki now performs world No.99 Martina Trevisan within the quarterfinals. The 30-year-old Italian has been ranked as excessive as world No.18.
Aussies in motion – Guadalajara
RESULTS
Girls’s singles, second spherical
[Q] Olivia Gadecki (AUS) d [2] Danielle Collins (USA) 6-3 6-3
COMING UP
Girls’s singles, quarterfinals
[Q] Olivia Gadecki (AUS) v Martina Trevisan (ITA)
> VIEW: Guadalajara girls’s singles draw
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